Marco Rubio: I am ready to be president
Sen. Marco Rubio said he’s ready to be commander-in-chief and qualified to be president in an interview Sunday with ABC’s “This Week.” SEE ALSO: Marco Rubio: Republican…
Marco Rubio says he is ready to become the President of the United States. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Sen. Marco Rubio said he’s ready to be commander-in-chief and qualified to be president in an interview Sunday with ABC’s “This Week.”
SEE ALSO: Marco Rubio: Republican savior or Icarus?
I think thats true for multiple other people that would want to run, Rubio told ABCs Jonathan Karl on The Week Sunday. I mean, Ill be 43 this month, but the other thing that perhaps people dont realize, Ive served now in public office for the better part of 14 years. Most importantly, I think a president has to have a clear vision of where the country needs to go and clear ideas about how to get it there, and I think were very blessed in our party to have a number of people that fit that criteria.
Karl twice put the question to Rubio: You think you’re ready to be president?
“I do,” Rubio replied both times.
Floridas junior senator also took the opportunity to criticize former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons record.
Rubio took the opportunity to criticize Hillary Clinton.(AP photo)
“If I decide to run for president, I will not have some sort of exit strategy to run for the Senate,” Rubio said. “I believe that if you want to be president of the United States, you run for president.”
“If you look at the diplomacy that was pursued in her time in the State Department, it has failed everywhere in the world,” Rubio said. “So here’s what I would say, if she is going to run on her record as secretary of state, she is also going to have to answer for its massive failures.”
On climate change, Rubio said he doesn’t think that mankind is adding to the problem.
“I don’t agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on what’s happening in our climate,” Rubio says. “Our climate is always changing. And what they have chosen to do is take a handful of decades of research and say that this is now evidence of a longer-term trend that’s directly and almost solely attributable to man-made activity, I do not agree with that.”
Marco Rubio was once considered to be a frontrunner for the 2016 Republican presidential nominee, but his poll numbers have been slipping as of late.
SEE ALSO: Marco Rubio proposes more choice as part of higher education overhaul
