It was WWW and Rubio Giddy to be Slamming Trump
Until last night's debate, Marco Rubio had kept the gloves off Donald Trump. In fact, he had been so cordial to Trump that a common refrain about Rubio from The Donald was "He’s been very nice and I think I’ve been very nice to him.” Well, last night that changed with Rubio going hard at Trump for inheriting so much money, for not having actual plans and just repeating nonsense, and for the Trump University fraud case. And today on the trail, Rubio doubled down in a huge way.
It felt like less a rally and more like an episode of MTV's Wild n' Out. Rubio bashed Trump left and right. Including going after Donald, by reading from a series of misspelled tweets that Trump has since deleted and tweeted with proper spellings
Some would say that this is all undignified. To them, I'd say, this may actually be too little too late. Rubio's attacks are landing here. He looks comfortable doing it. And he seems far more compelling as an alternative to Trump when he's roasting the New York businessman for being the huge joke that he is than when he's playing nice for some weird, unknown reason. I mean, some of Marco's lines here would get "WORLDSTAR!" shouts if the crowds weren't all lame Republicans. I mean seriously, Rubio's line explaining the misspellings is pretty damning. “Either that’s how they spell those words at the Wharton School of Business where he went, or just like Trump Tower, he must have hired a foreign worker to do his tweets."
Of course, even here, Rubio couldn't just slam dunk what should be an easy slam. He also misspeaks, and says that Trump spelled "choker" wrong, which he absolutely did, but Rubio read from the wrong part of the tweet and instead read one of the times Trump spelled it right:
The good news for Marco, is that if this campaign has shown us anything, it's that screaming attacks will land even if they're not quite right. So good job, Marco. You probably should have been doing this a month ago, but better late than never.
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