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While Jeb Bush answers questions about his campaign shakeup overseas, Marco Rubio will be playing flag football with dozens of the wealthy donors who backed Mitt Romney in 2012 – just the latest chance for Rubio to encroach on territory once thought locked down by his friend and mentor.
As Bush’s still-officially-non-campaign stumbles, Rubio is increasingly taking advantage. He’s drawing good crowds on the early state campaign trail, raking in big money from longstanding GOP donors, and successfully battling back against negative stories about his personal finances and driving record.
“The latest one is, I shouldn’t run for president because I’m not rich enough,” Rubio said Saturday in Iowa atJoni Ernst’s Roast and Ride fundraiser – repeating what he had told a crowd that packed a Holiday Inn ballroom earlier that day. “My wife and I work to ensure that we have enough money to send our kids to a private Christian education. And we have a mortgage that we pay every month. But you know what the biggest debt I have is? It’s not to a bank – it’s to the United States of America.”
Read more http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/marco-rubio-moment-jeb-bush-stumbles-abroad
As Bush’s still-officially-non-campaign stumbles, Rubio is increasingly taking advantage. He’s drawing good crowds on the early state campaign trail, raking in big money from longstanding GOP donors, and successfully battling back against negative stories about his personal finances and driving record.
“The latest one is, I shouldn’t run for president because I’m not rich enough,” Rubio said Saturday in Iowa atJoni Ernst’s Roast and Ride fundraiser – repeating what he had told a crowd that packed a Holiday Inn ballroom earlier that day. “My wife and I work to ensure that we have enough money to send our kids to a private Christian education. And we have a mortgage that we pay every month. But you know what the biggest debt I have is? It’s not to a bank – it’s to the United States of America.”
Read more http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/marco-rubio-moment-jeb-bush-stumbles-abroad
