Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush might still be friends. But with the GOP nomination on the line, the battle between the two Floridians is starting to come to the surface.
During an interview with Sean Hannity Monday, Rubio continued to speak highly of Bush, but only before telling the host that the Republicans need to “turn the page as a party” on the leaders of the past, a not-so-thinly veiled jab at his 2016 competitor.
“It’s not about him,” Rubio said of Bush. “I’m not running against him or anybody else in this field. I’m running for president, and I honestly thing we need to turn the page as a party. We can’t just keep electing the same people with the same ideas. Nothing is going to change.”
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“[B]oth the Republican Party and the broader federal government is completely out of touch at its highest levels of what people going through in their lives. And people are tired of it. They’ve elected Democrats, nothing changed. They put Republicans in charge and nothing changed.”
“They gave both parties equal shot at it and nothing changed. They gave it back to the Republicans in the Congress and nothing changes,” Rubio charged. “People are fed up, the time has come to turn the page and offer new leaders, with new ideas, for a new time. And that is why I am running for president.”
The comments come a day after an Associated Press story examined the tension between the two camps — with Bush’s team hitting Rubio for being inexperienced like then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2007. On the opposite end, Rubio continues to level shots his GOP counterpart, as he does Hillary Clinton, for a push in generational change.
