Parade of who’s who in the Florida GOP poured praise on ex POTUS
What a difference six years makes.
In 2016, when both Sen. Marco Rubio and a businessman named Donald Trump were competing for the Republican nomination for president, they called each other names and hurled insults at one another.
“Little Marco,” as Trump used to say, “can’t be elected dog-catcher in Florida.”
Trump was an unstable “con artist,” said Rubio, who mocked his hair, his “tiny hands” and his unnatural and shiny orange glow.
On Sunday, the two showed they buried any hatchets when they appeared on stage together at a get-out-the-vote rally for Rubio two days before Election Day.
“You need Marco Rubio fighting for you in the U.S. Senate. He is fantastic,” Trump said to the crowd at the Miami-Dade Fair Expo grounds, calling him a “great friend” during a 90-minute speech that was mostly about himself taking the White House back n 2024.
“Marco, come on up.”
And there Marquito went, as ordered, up on stage to share the space and some laughs with the man he once said was a danger to the Republican Party.
¡Que hipocrita!
Of course it’s not the first time. Rubio held a pro-Trump rally two years ago during the presidential race. His defenders might say that he’s a pragmatist, strategic even — someone who can look the other way and give a second chance when it serves his cause. After all, Trump has had a pretty good record with his mid-term endorsements so far.
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“Mr. President, I think Miami-Dade County likes you a lot. I think they love you a lot,” he said when he first went up. What a kiss ass.
Ladra calls it opportunism. It also hurts his credibility. Like, how can we believe anything he says about anybody now?
Trump, too, is trying to build new allies in Florida now that Gov. Ron DeSantis is his biggest threat to the 2024 nomination. Notice how DeSantis was not invited to the rally on Sunday and had to have his own little rally someplace else.
So who are Trump’s new Florida friends? The Republicans who were invited to the rally, most of whom spoke at the event, which can be watched on C-Span’s website, included Sen. Rick Scott, Congress Members Carlos Gimenez — who Trump must have forgotten endorsed Hillary Clinton — and Mario Diaz Balart, Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo — who introduced himself as the mayor of the Free City of Hialeah — Senate President Wilton Simpson, who is running for agriculture commissioner, State Rep. Matt Gaetz and State Rep. and future Speaker Daniel Perez, who noted the surge of Republican registrations since 2020.
What happened to all our local Republican women? This was definitely a boy’s party.
Gimenez said the expected red wave was going to be a “red tsunami.
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“And it’s going to rise from the Florida Straits and it’s going to go right over the keys, go over the state of Florida and sweep the rest of the nation,” Gimenez said. “Because America is going to say no to inflation, America is going to say no to crazy energy policies, America is going to say no to open borders, America is going to say no to teaching our children crazy stuff.”
Miami-Dade Commission Candidate Kevin Marino Cabrera — a former Trump campaign staffer who was already endorsed by The Donald — led the crowd in the pledge of allegiance. First he asked the crowd “who here is ready to vote on Tuesday, to drain the swamp, not only in Washington but here in Miami-Dade County and save our country.”
It gave the 305 Republicans an opportunity to kiss some Trump butt and at times sounded more like a campaign event for the former president than a rally for Rubio, who is in the race of his life against Congresswoman Val Demings, a former Orlando chief of police.
In speeches between songs on a really great playlist by TrendyBeats.com, the speakers dug at Hunter Biden and Nancy Pelosi, brought up gender identity, bashed President Joe Biden and praised the former POTUS while the audience chanted slogans like “Lock her up.”
Um, wasn’t that two races ago?
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“Miami-Dade County, this is Trump Country,” Perez said. “There are many elected officials you will hear today and many influential people in the movement towards conservatism in our own backyard. But there is absolutely nobody that deserves more credit, that actually believed in us, invested his time in us, invested his policies in and turned this county red than Donald J. Trump.”
Donald Trump Jr. also took the stage to talk about how terrible the Democrats are and how he moved his son to Florida from New York because they love grandpa there.
But the praise from his son and the GOP establishment was expected. It was Rubio’s complete 180-degree turn that made this rally a perfect example of how politics make for strange bedfellows.
And also of how Rubio is just an opportunist who won’t stand by his word.
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” He didn’t respond. This tells me these elected officials only care about the party positions.”
If I email a politician and they do not respond as far as I am concerned they are telling me ‘ DO NOT vote for me ‘ .
I have emailed Mayor Cava about lots of white / yellow street divider lines so faded or completely gone that it is a hazard and no reply thus she has told me not to vote for her again and that sounds good to me .
I stay in my lane I do not need the lines but when you work at night and so many horrible drivers out there add now so many illegal drivers who have no idea how to drive the street lines are imperative .
My parents live further north in the state and what is acceptable here as far as zero city maintenance is unheard of by them.
Rubio out of the starting gate came out as a liar .
He said his parents fled Castro but they fled Batista .
In the Cuban world you KNOW if your parents fled Castro or Batista , it is no secret .
” Kamala called him a racist while they were foes.”
Kamala is another liar and empty suit who the media propped up .
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” You Libtards are so afraid of Trump winning another term”
Trump is still a powerhouse in the GOP and can pick an unknown , close to zero chance of winning candidate and they win or close to it but I doubt he is going to run again .
He is the idol maker .
Sun on the way to work I drove by the FIU gun show few minutes before they closed up and crowds with Trump shirts .
we are doomed if these group of hypocrits take over and they will thanks to lack of leadership by the democrats. I pray to god that we done sink so low that you will have ass kissers like Rubio, Gantz, Gimenez, Cabrera salazar and the rest of the bunch. You are right this was a rallye for him and only him and our population keeps praising a man that said I can be in Fifth Ave and shoot someone and they wont do anything to him. AN antisemite, a white supremacist and they want him back to ruin this country. He wants to be president so they can’t prosecute him for all he has done. Anyone remeber what he said in his bus in Los Angeles about women how soon they forget this.
Isn’t Biden the biggest Hypocrite. Kamala called him a racist while they were foes. Then he picks her foe his running mate….please.
How long after the red tsunami will it take for Publix to do its part in reversing inflation by lowering grocery prices to pre-pandemic levels? What about Shell and Exxon, when will the new GOP force them to lower gas prices? Of course, Florida’s homeowners insurance premiums will become affordable as coverage will soon again be easily obtained under DeSantis’ leadership—Ian losses be damned! Joining the anti-inflation bandwagon Commissioner Regalado and Mayor Cava have abolished single family zoning (except in their own tony neighborhoods) we can’t wait for local housing expenses to tumble. With all these price cuts the future looks rosy.
Ditto to Mr. Calderon’s post.
Glad to see Maria Elvira wasn’t there – the only sane Republican left in the 305 and somebody who has my vote.
Speaking of Danny Perez, earlier this year when the media asked Daniel (Danny) Perez about restrictions on abortion, and he said that he opposed all exceptions including in cases of rape and incest, I wrote to him an email (he represents my district in Tally) telling him how shocking it was for a parent like him to have such a radical and inhumane posture. He didn’t respond. This tells me these elected officials only care about the party positions.
You Libtards are so afraid of Trump winning another term, that is just hilarious. It is inevitable and y’all know it. Quit while you are ahead.
Vote RED !
“¡Que hipocrita!” says Ladra, and I say yes, yes, yes!!!!
Back in 2016 I supported Marco Rubio for President. I thought he represented the best of the values that made this country possible. He was young, charismatic, son of immigrants, etc., and as a Republican, I supported him morally and financially.
His pathetic performance in 2016, not unlike that of so many other Republicans (Ted Cruz comes to mind), showed me that he really was a sound loop, as Chris Christie pointed out in the debate that destroyed him.
His performance now, represented in his embarrassing support for Trump and his anti-American values, has determined his shameful position in history.