The End of Marco Rubio

By Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo

… Rubio was basically an accidental Senator, swept up in the floodtide of the 2010 Tea Party mid-term, though it’s true that many careers start that way.

Now that it’s clear that the base of the GOP – as expressed in the House GOP’s diehard desire to kill reform – is emphatically not on board with the Senate immigration bill to which he tied his fate, his whole plan for the 2016 run is basically in a shambles and his support among conservatives is falling rapidly. (His national numbers, rather than Republicans only, show similar problems.) There’s even a hopeless and unconstitutional movement afoot among Florida conservatives to ‘recall’ him from office. (Sorry, you can’t recall federal officeholders. Been there, done that.)

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[Photo by Gage Skidmore]

 

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