Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio kept up his assault on party front-runner Donald Trump the day after a GOP debate, repeatedly calling the business mogul a “con artist.”
During a Friday interview on CBS’s “This Morning,” Rubio was asked if his aggressive performance at the debate was the result of someone hitting the panic button on his campaign.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I can just tell you that a con artist is about to take over the Republican Party and the conservative movement, and we have to put a stop to it,” the Florida senator said.
{mosads}He added that Trump “had no answers” during the debate when it came to the issue of healthcare and that “the media is pumping him up as some sort of unstoppable force.”
“Donald Trump has portrayed himself now consistently as fighting for the working people and he has a record of sticking it to working people for 35 years,” Rubio continued. “If any other candidate in this race had his record, there would be nonstop reporting on it, but unfortunately he’s being pumped up because many in the media with a bias know that he’ll be easy to beat in a general election.”
Rubio vowed to keep up his attacks on the billionaire business mogul.
“So we’re gonna put a stop to it now,” he said. “There is now we’re going to allow a con artist to take over the conservative movement and Donald Trump is a con artist.”
Rubio added that a Trump presidency would be “chaos” and that he is “wholly unprepared to be president of the United States.”
“This is the most important job on the planet, and we’re about to turn over the conservative movement to a person who has no ideas of any substance on the important issues,” he said.
The Florida senator went on several times to repeat his warning that the Republican presidential front-runner is a con artist.
He also denied that his campaign is worried about its chances in his home state of Florida following a Quinnipiac University poll that showed Trump leading him by 16 points in the state.
“We will win Florida. I know our state very well; it is not going to vote for someone like Donald Trump.”