Rubio Insists He’s Not Running a Passive Campaign

Sen. Marco Rubio outlined his campaign trail activity to donors in a conference call and “pushed back on the recent media narrative that he’s running a passive campaign,” Politico reports.

“He also revealed that he now had about 100 full-time staffers, most of whom, he said, are conducting voter contact. And he mentioned his upcoming swing through Iowa, a three-day bus tour with seven events across the state.”

Erik Eisele, reporter for the Conway Daily Sun: “We had roughly 20 minutes with him on Monday, and it was like watching a computer algorithm designed to cover talking points. He said a lot, but at the same time said nothing. It was like someone wound him up, pointed him towards the doors and pushed play. If there was a human side to senator, a soul, it didn’t come across through… Marco Rubio is a man so stuck on script it doesn’t even matter when the cameras are off.”