Marco Rubio: GOP Shouldn’t Do Hillary Clinton’s Bidding For Her
Rubio said that GOP candidates shouldn't attack each other.
— -- ORANGE CITY, IOWA -- Responding to news that a leaked Jeb Bush campaign memo labeled him as a “risky bet,” Marco Rubio said it's not a "smart thing" for the GOP to be doing Hillary Clinton’s bidding for her by attacking one another in the primary.
“I just don't think it’s a smart thing for Republicans to do Hillary Clinton’s job for her,” the Florida senator and Republican presidential told reporters Friday.
Rubio, who said he had not seen the Bush presentation that labels him as risky, drew a comparison to the 2012 Republican presidential primary, when he said the GOP did eventual nominee Mitt Romney a disservice by infighting during the primary.
“One of the reasons I think we lost in 2012 is Republicans attacking each other, it weakened the eventual nominee,” Rubio said. “But I can’t control other people's campaigns. I can control mine. And mine is going to be about the future of America, and if there are policy differences between the candidates we look forward to discussing those.”
Asked to weigh in on what Bush’s recent attacks say about his own candidacy, Rubio demurred to analyze the inner-workings of the Bush campaign and instead returned to the rebuttal he used in the debate when Bush criticized Rubio for missing votes in the Senate while he campaigns for the White House.
“I just think that someone in his campaign has convinced him that the way forward is to attack me,” Rubio said. “So that's why they’re doing it and thats fine. Everybody makes their own decisions.”