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Hialeah, Florida. – Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) accused the Democratic Party of adopting far-left policies and leaving average voters behind.
Addressing a crowd at the Florida Republican primary night event in Hialeah, Fla., Rubio said the Democrats were overwhelmed by “radical, left-wing lunatics, laptop liberals, and Marxist misfits,” and that the nation’s He claimed to have changed the political discourse.
“Look, you can’t live in Miami and not know the Democrats,” said Rubio. “We’ve known Democrats all our lives. I’ve known liberals all my life. I didn’t know this insanity.”
Rubio said this year’s election is important because no matter who the Democratic candidate is, he will do what the far left says.
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“Do you think all these people who were actually elected… actually believe some of this stuff? They have no choice,” he said. They do it because they fear their base, it’s a radical base, and they follow suit.”
Earlier, Rubio warned against the dangers of Marxist ideology, arguing that it was far worse than socialism.
“Socialism is a system of economics and it doesn’t work. We have masses of refugees to prove it. But Marxism is more than just economics. It’s about controlling everything,” said Rubio. rice field. “Marxism cannot tolerate competition of any kind. It cannot tolerate competition from parents or families. So we tell children, ‘Your parents don’t know what they are talking about, we say Please listen to me.'” Because they cannot tolerate debate, they try to suppress speech.
Republican senators claimed that the far left had “made up a complete language.” He then asked who in the audience to raise their hand to identify as “Latino,” prompting laughter from the Hispanic-majority city crowd.
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“I didn’t even know what that meant,” said Rubio, who is of Cuban descent. “I thought it was like an ’80s boy band.”
Rubio said he wanted the US to have “two normal political parties” and be able to participate in discussions such as whether the tax should be 18% or 19%.
“But that’s not what we discuss anymore,” he said. “We discuss crazy things. It’s crazy.”
Rubio said the Democratic Party “left millions of Americans behind” as a result of its shift to the left.
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“I have a message for my Democrat friends out there tonight. Your party has abandoned you,” he said.
Rubio is poised to face Democratic Rep. Val Demings in the November general election.