Hillary Clinton on Thursday became the latest high-profile candidate to mock Sen. Marco Rubio for repeating himself, something that Gov. Chris Christie pioneered at last Saturday’s GOP debate.
Christie hit Rubio hard during the debate for saying repeatedly that President Obama knows “exactly what he’s doing.” And Thursday, Clinton borrowed the line to attack Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who said Obama hasn’t closed the “presidential leadership gap.”
“Let’s dispel with this fiction that @POTUS doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing,” Clinton tweeted on Thursday afternoon, linking to a story about Sanders’ comment.
Let’s dispel with this fiction that @POTUS doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing. https://t.co/DQ4HHj9kXZ
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 11, 2016
The tweet was an obvious dig at Rubio, who said a few times at the debate, “let’s dispel with this fiction.”
It also prompted a reply from Rubio that dinged Clinton for the legal trouble she might be in over her use of a private email system while she was secretary of state.
“.@HillaryClinton knew exactly what she was doing and the FBI would like to know too,” Rubio tweeted in reply.
.@HillaryClinton knew exactly what she was doing and the FBI would like to know too https://t.co/CVPE78qV2T https://t.co/X5gc39keBk
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 11, 2016
On the day of the New Hampshire primary, the Federal Bureau of Investigations confirmed that they were investigating Clinton’s emails. Clinton narrowly defeated Sanders in the Iowa caucus and lost to him by twenty-two points in New Hampshire, and her campaign has made every attempt to attack the Vermont Senator in in the run-up to the South Carolina primary.
