MANCHESTER, N.H.–The Rubio campaign insists voters do not care about Sen. [crscore]Marco Rubio[/crscore] repeating his stump speech lines at the Republican debate Saturday night, telling reporters the media is just creating “media noise.”
“That frame is media noise that voters actually don’t care about. One reporter’s frame about repetition is another reporter’s frame about message discipline. It’s all a bunch of noise that actual voters aren’t concerned about,” Rubio spokesman Todd Harris told reporters after the debate. (RELATED: Christie Shreds Rubio [VIDEO])
“What are primary voters concerned about? They’re concerned about a candidate that can defeat Hillary Clinton—period. End of story. That’s what matters.”
Harris added, “This whole side-show is probably the silliest distraction we’ve encountered in this race, since Donald Trump decided not to show up to a debate.”
During the debate, Rubio repeated the line that President Obama “knows exactly what he’s doing” four different times. He used the line at the end of a response when asked about his accomplishments. (RELATED: Christie Celebrates Debate Clash With Rubio: ‘All Of America Saw Who’s Ready’)
“And let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Barack Obama is undertaking a systematic effort to change this country, to make America more like the rest of the world.”
Rubio later used it when Gov. Chris Christie criticized him for his lack of experience and again even after Christie mentioned “the memorized 25-second speech” that “his advisers gave him.”
“Chris — Chris, your state got hit by a massive snowstorm two weeks ago. You didn’t even want to go back. They had to shame you into going back. And then you stayed there for 36 hours and then he left and came back to campaign. Those are the facts,” Rubio responded.
“Here’s the bottom line. This notion that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing is just not true. He knows exactly what he’s doing,” Rubio reiterated.
Christie jumped on Rubio exclaiming, “There it is. There it is. The memorized 25-second-speech. There it is, everybody.”
It did not take long for parodies to pop up taking jabs at Rubio’s refrains. By midnight, one YouTube account created a song based on the 1970’s song by Styx, “Mr. Roboto,” instead called “Marco Roboto.”
The Twitter parody account “Marco Rubio glitch” popped up as well and already has over 2,400 followers.