Sen. Marco Rubio is predicting that the first case of the Zika virus contracted in the United States will trigger “a total freak out” among the American people in the midst of an election year.

“It is not a question of ‘if,’ it’s a question of ‘when,'” the Florida Republican said during a Friday press conference in Miami. “When that moment comes there is going to be, for lack of a better term, a total freak out in the United States about what we are going to do.”

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