McConnell: ‘We hope’ it’s Rubio in Florida

Published June 14, 2016 4:08pm ET



Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is keeping up his push for Sen. Marco Rubio to run for re-election in November, even though Rubio has said he has no plans to do so.

“We hope our candidate will end up being Marco Rubio,” McConnell said in a Facebook video chat with the Huffington Post on Tuesday.

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