Florida Sen. Marco Rubio pushed back Friday against criticism that he lacks enough experience to be president, and said he has “done more on foreign policy than any of the other people running for president.”
“The bottom line is, when it comes to the presidency of the U.S., there is no one running on the Republican side who has more experience or shown better judgment than I have,” the freshman senator said on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”
“Just last week, on a bipartisan basis, I passed additional sanctions against Hezbollah,” Rubio noted.
The Florida Republican recited a handful of his foreign policy accomplishments and predictions: “I’ve dealt with human rights violations in Venezuela and imposed sanctions on them. And as a member of the Foreign Relations and Intelligence Committee in the Senate, I repeatedly warned about all of these things that you’re now seeing happen around the world – I’ve been talking about them for four years.”
“I warned about what would happen in Libya. I warned about what would happen in Syria. I’m warning now about ISIS growing in Afghanistan. I’ve been talking consistently about North Korea and Iran and the nuclear threat they pose to this country,” he added.
Rubio is third in the Washington Examiner’s presidential power rankings, and in several national polls of Republican voters.
