Rubio declines to criticize Trump over feedback on Haley’s husband

Maj. Michael Haley is serving an active-duty deployment within the Horn of Africa for the South Carolina Military Nationwide Shield. “If you mock the service of a combat veteran, you don’t deserve a driver’s license, let alone being President of the United States,” Nikki Haley stated upcoming in line with Trump’s feedback.

However the Florida senator stated that it doesn’t matter what Trump stated about anything else, he would proceed to again him. “I support him because Joe Biden’s a disaster,” he stated.

Host Jake Tapper identified that Rubio himself had denounced Trump all through the 2016 marketing campaign when he mocked then-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for having been captured when his A-4E Skyhawk used to be shot indisposed all through the Vietnam Conflict.

“I was running for president against Donald Trump and we were in a campaign,” Rubio stated.

Rubio additionally sparred with Tapper at space over the details of law just lately negotiated through Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) that sought to vary American immigration coverage, pronouncing the reforms would were worse than doing not anything in any respect.

“It wasn’t a border security bill. It wasn’t tough,” Rubio stated.

The measure died within the Senate closing past most effective days later it appeared love it may draw in bipartisan help.

“I’ve never seen an about-face like this in the 20-plus years I’ve been in politics,”
Murphy told POLITICO’s Ryan Lizza. “On Sunday afternoon, we had 20-25 Republicans we thought we could get to support the bill. Sen. [Mitch] McConnell had been in the room negotiating the bill with us for months, and within 48 hours, we had four yes votes.”