Marco Rubio will support Donald Trump for president. Just don’t ask him to admit that that’s what he’s doing:
Speaking to CNN's Jake Tapper in his first national television interview since ending his campaign in March, the senator from Florida seemed determined to walk a fine line when it comes to the presumptive GOP nominee. He repeatedly vowed to support the "the Republican nominee," rather than using Trump's name.
Psst. Little Marco: It’s the same thing. You can’t pretend it away. Neither can you walk a line fine enough to be both the loyal Republican backing his party’s nominee and the principled man independent enough to criticize other Republicans when they are wrong, despite your strenuous efforts:
"My differences with Donald, both my reservations about his campaign and my policy differences with him, are well documented, and they remain," Rubio said Tuesday.
You mean differences like “We cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan,” or maybe like Trump being a “con artist” who is “wholly unprepared to be president of the United States”? Those are just some of the well-documented differences Rubio had with Trump, and he says “they remain.” And yet here we have Rubio supporting “the Republican nominee,” aka Donald Trump.
Being unhappy about it doesn’t absolve you of having done it, Marco.