Marco Rubio has signed a pledge not to raise taxes if he is elected president, joining his Republican hopefuls Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.
Rubio, who represents Florida in the U.S. Senate, signed Americans for Tax Reform’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge, the group said Tuesday morning. The pledge, which is administered by the group but is made to the American people, commits Rubio to forgoing all tax hikes and vetoing any effort to raise taxes.
“Senator Rubio is a longtime leader in the taxpayer movement. He signed and kept the Pledge as a Florida state House representative and as a United States Senator,” Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist said in a statement. “By signing the Taxpayer Protection Pledge to the American people, Senator Rubio continues to protect American taxpayers against higher taxes.”
Rubio, Cruz, and Paul are the major declared Republican candidates for the presidency. Cruz, who represents Texas in the Senate, and Paul, who represents Kentucky, signed the pledge last week.
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, has said that he will not sign Americans for Tax Reform’s pledge or any other such pledge.
In the 2012 election, all the GOP candidates signed the pledge, with the exception of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.
