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Marco Rubio Sold Out for a Chance to Be Trump’s VP
The Florida senator who once said leadership is telling people what they need to hear is now just another enabler of the former president.
The chameleon.
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Marco Rubio was on the ascent as the next speaker of the Florida House of Representatives when he convened a 2006 policy summit in Orlando with then-Governor Jeb Bush.
“Popularity is not leadership. It never has been,” he proclaimed before a crowd of Republican politicians and business executives. “Leaders tell people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.”