Marco Rubio refuses to tell Florida crowd he’ll stop taking NRA donations

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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Wednesday night dodged answering three questions regarding if he would take political contributions in the future from the National Rifle Association, in the wake of last week’s school shooting in his home state.

When pressed by Cameron Kasky, a student who survived the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week, at a CNN town hall in Parkland, Fla., Rubio declined on multiple occasions to say whether he would accept future contributions. Instead, he insisted over the booing and groaning in the crowd that he does not buy into the agendas of outside organizations and that they instead have to support his.

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