Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday that Donald Trump is the most vulgar person to ever run for president.
“Donald Trump has been perhaps the most vulgar — no, I don’t think perhaps — the most vulgar person to ever aspire to the presidency in terms of how he’s carried out his candidacy,” the Florida senator told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day” Friday morning.
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At Thursday night’s Fox News-hosted Republican presidential debate, Trump shot back at accusations from Rubio that there was “no problem” with the size of his hands, or anything else. Trump was reacting to Rubio’s comment days earlier that Trump had small hands, after which Rubio hinted that those small hands must imply some other shortcoming.
“Look at those hands, are they small hands?” Trump said at the debate in reply to Rubio. “And, he referred to my hands — ‘if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”
According to Rubio, Trump’s vulgarity is a distraction from actual policies affecting the American people.
“The majority of the questions had something to do with he said or she said,” he said. “I would love to have a policy debate. I think that’s important. We’re talking about the presidency of the United States here.”
However, despite the clashes, Rubio stood by his pledge that he would support whomever the Republican nominee should be for the general election, including Trump.
“That’s the quandary I’m trying to avoid the Republicans Party having to face,” he said. “I don’t want us to have a nominee that people have to make up an excuse why they’re voting for, or hold their nose and vote for. I want us to have a nominee that we’re excited about,” Rubio said, adding that the Republican Party would have trouble winning the general election should Trump be the nominee.
“If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, we’re going to have a party that’s divided. We’re going to have a party that’s going to have to somehow justify to itself why it’s voting for this man,” Rubio said. “I think its hard to win an election with a nominee like that.”
Rubio, who only won one state on Super Tuesday, Minnesota, also told Camerota that he is looking to win Florida to bring back the momentum to his campaign, and then beyond.
“I think you can ask that of everyone in this race. We’re gonna compete everywhere we can,” Rubio explained. “We have a national campaign. We have a campaign that’s competing in Hawaii, we have a campaign that’s competing in Kansas, we’re competing in Florida, Louisiana, we are working everywhere.”
