KEY LARGO, Florida — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was liberal with his broadsides of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and congressional Democrats on the campaign trail, focusing on their economic and immigration policies.
“When you say they’ll destroy this country, that is just talking about the things they’ve done,” Rubio told supporters Saturday during a small stop in Key Largo, Florida. “We need to be reminded of things they would have done had it not been for the fact that there’s at least one Democrat that doesn’t want to get rid of the filibuster.”
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“If they got rid of that, let’s say they can do whatever they want with 50 votes and Kamala Harris, when she’s not managing the border,” he added to laughs. “Can you just imagine?”
The filibuster is a parliamentary rule that requires a supermajority of 60 votes in the Senate to end debate and hold a vote on the considered measure.
In the closing weeks of the two-term incumbent’s reelection race against Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), Rubio also criticized Biden’s “Build Back Socialist” agenda and alleged the president announced this week that he planned to release another 15 million barrels of crude oil from the country’s emergency stockpile starting in December because of the Nov. 8 contests.
“The reason why we have the Strategic [Petroleum] Reserve is if we have a war, if we have an oil embargo,” Rubio said. “It doesn’t exist to bail you out during midterm elections, which is how he’s using it.”
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Cook Political Report updated the Rubio-Demings match-up this week from “lean” to “likely” Republican. FiveThirtyEight predicts Rubio has a 90% chance of winning and that it will be with an 8-percentage-point margin of victory, 53%-45%. They find he has an average polling lead of 4 points, while RealClearPolitics has him, on average, 6 points ahead.
