Sen. Marco Rubio won the endorsement of Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake Monday as the presidential hopeful continues to add to his list of backers ahead of Tuesday’s Nevada caucuses.
Flake’s endorsement comes on the heels of Rubio winning the endorsements of Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC,, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, who’s been traveling the state for Rubio ahead of Tuesday’s caucuses.
“I’m supporting Marco Rubio for president because he has the ideas, the principles and the toughness necessary to bring reform to Washington,” Flake said in a statement to The Arizona Republic. “In an election where serious solutions are seriously lacking, Marco Rubio has proven that he can inspire more than just anger in Americans who are looking for an alternative to the status quo.”
Notably, Flake and Rubio were two of the four Republicans who worked to craft comprehensive immigration reform in 2013, better known as the Gang of Eight bill, which passed the Senate but didn’t move an inch in the House.
With the move, Rubio continues to look to coalesce the so-called Republican “establishment” around his campaign as he tries to battle with Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz for the GOP nomination.
