After coming under fire for missing on Senate votes to campaign president, Marco Rubio announced he was skipping out on a 2016 event Friday to cast a vote in Washington.
Rather than attend a lunch in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the Florida senator was back at the Capitol Friday morning at 3 a.m. EST to vote against the budget deal.
According to a statement from the Rubio campaign, the 2016 hopeful cancelled his early event in Council Bluffs. Rubio was set to attend the lunch at 1 p.m. EST, then attend a happy hour event in Sioux City at 5 p.m. EST — which he did not cancel.
“Given the nation’s debt crisis, Marco is hitting the campaign trail later than initially planned,” the Rubio campaign said in a press release. “The Council Bluffs lunch originally scheduled for noon today at Barley’s will be postponed to a later date due to Senate votes in Washington.”
The announcement comes after Rubio rebutted complaints from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush during the third GOP debate Wednesday over his missed votes in the Senate. Bush’s charge seems to have backfired, with the former GOP front-runner now under fire for going after Rubio.
The Sun-Sentinel, a Florida newspaper, called on Rubio to resign over his missed votes. Rubio countered that charge by saying the paper made no such comment when former Sen. Bob Graham, former Sen. John Kerry and President Obama were missing votes while running for president.
