Should he be elected president, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says the White House perk he’s most looking forward to is Secret Service protection for his teenage daughter.
“It wouldn’t be bad to have Secret Service keeping an eye on your teenage daughter, you know?” the Republican presidential hopeful told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie in an interview that aired Thanksgiving morning.
“I, personally, am not troubled by the fact that there will be a couple big guys with earpieces alongside her… just in case,” he quipped.
Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, also opened up about their two sons’ reactions to their father’s presidential ambitions.
“They’re proud of their dad, they love their dad,” Mrs. Rubio said. She said that during a Thanksgiving celebration at school, one of her sons told his classmates, “I’m thankful for my dad running for president.”
The Florida senator, who’s third in the Washington Examiner’s presidential power rankings, told NBC News Wednesday he plans to spend Thanksgiving at his sister and sister-in-law’s homes, though he’d prefer to be watching football.
“He wants to just sit there and not have to move,” Mrs. Rubio said.
