{"id":14114,"date":"2024-01-16T01:51:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T01:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/rubio-becomes-2nd-florida-senator-to-endorse-trump-over-desantis\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T01:51:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T01:51:22","slug":"rubio-becomes-2nd-florida-senator-to-endorse-trump-over-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/rubio-becomes-2nd-florida-senator-to-endorse-trump-over-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio becomes 2nd Florida senator to endorse Trump over DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., endorsed former President Trump on Sunday instead of his state\u2019s governor, Ron DeSantis, for the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u2018When Trump was in WH I achieved major policies I had worked on for years (like expanded Child Tax Credit &amp; tough sanctions on regime in Cuba &amp; Venezuela) because we had a President who didn\u2019t cave to special interests or let bureaucrats block us,\u2019 Rubio wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I support Trump because that kind of leadership is the ONLY way we will get the extraordinary actions needed to fix the disaster Biden has created,\u2019 he added. \u2018It\u2019s time to get on with the work of beating Biden &amp; saving America!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Rubio had contested against Trump in the 2016 election but withdrew from the race following his defeat in the Florida primary. Last November, Florida Sen. Rick Scott threw his support behind Trump, leading both state senators to favor Trump over DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>During the contentious 2016 race, Trump often referred to Rubio as \u2018Little Marco,\u2019 while Rubio referred to Trump as a \u2018con artist\u2019 and said his administration would be \u2018chaos.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just hours before Rubio threw his support behind Trump, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum \u2014 who also dropped out of the 2024 race \u2014 endorsed the former president as well.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio\u2019s endorsement comes as Trump remains the consistent frontrunner in surveys. He joins nearly two dozen GOP senators in endorsing Trump, including Sens. JD Vance of Ohio, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Rick Scott of Florida, Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt of Missouri, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa caucusgoers will cast their vote for the Republican presidential nominee Monday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., endorsed former President Trump on Sunday instead of his state\u2019s governor, Ron DeSantis, for the 2024 presidential election. \u2018When Trump was in WH I achieved major policies I had worked on for years (like expanded Child Tax Credit &amp; tough sanctions on regime in Cuba &amp; Venezuela) because we had a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}