Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio told NPR’s Steve Inskeep Monday that “this election is not going to be about Donald Trump,” and that he doesn’t want “to be a member or part of his freak show.”
“I’m not interested in the back-and-forth — to be a member or part of his freak show. I’ll tell you this,” Rubio said. “He is a very sensitive person. He doesn’t like to be criticized. He responds to criticism very poorly.”
“He had a speech in South Carolina to an empty crowd. He got booed Friday at that Values Voter Summit. His poll numbers have taken a beating, and he was embarrassed on national television at the debate by Carly Fiorina and others,” he continued. “But this election is not going to be about Donald Trump. He thinks it is, but it’s not about him. It has to be about the issues confronting our country. My sense of it is that every time the issues become prominent, he will say something outrageous or do something outrageous so he doesn’t have to talk about the issues.”
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