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Despite telling the people of Florida that he wasn’t going to run for his old position in the Senate, despite luring his BFF into running for the slot, and despite repeatedly confirming his lack of interest in resuming his role as America’s least effective and most absent senator, Marco Rubio decided earlier this week that he would run for the Senate again.
Just a month ago, Marco Rubio tweeted, "I have only said like 10000 times I will be a private citizen in January." And yet, on Wednesday, Rubio announced that he would reverse his longstanding promise not to seek re-election and would in fact run for a second term in the Senate.
But if a man decides to do something after telling people “10000 times” that he wasn’t going to do it, there must be a very good reason. And there is! It’s:
Because he wants to help the people of Florida
Because he feels called to important work in the Senate
Because it would make it easier to run for president again.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Marco Rubio feels deeply that having a Senate seat would make something that he might possibly want to do again in four years (or maybe eight years) slightly easier than it would be if he wasn’t snoozing through one of the most important jobs in the nation.
Mr. Rubio has told colleagues and advisers that he is considering running for president again, in 2020 or 2024. And as he and his team weighed a re-election campaign, they debated how well situated he would be in once more seeking the presidency from the Senate.
It’s hard to see how the people of Florida can possibly turn down the man who already set the record for doing the most half-assed job in the Senate and has announced that he wants the job back just to make getting another job easier. You know, the way that being in the Senate helped Rubio this year. And Ted Cruz. And Rand Paul. And Lindsay Graham.