Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Sunday that President Joe Biden has the “demeanor of a centrist” but nevertheless is pushing “far left-of-center ideas.”
During a “Fox News Sunday” interview, anchor Chris Wallace brought up a Friday tweet from Rubio in which the Florida senator reacted to a series of Biden executive orders by writing that the president “has talked like a centrist but governed from the radical left.”
So far Biden has talked like a centrist but governed from the radical left pic.twitter.com/wVnARR4dta
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) January 22, 2021
“Is talk of unity from this White House dead already,” Wallace asked.
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“Yeah, no, unity and ideology are two separate things, okay?” Rubio responded. “Unity doesn’t mean uniformity, that’s ridiculous.”
The Florida senator accused Biden of portraying himself “as a centrist” during the election, then immediately implementing far-left policies on issues like the Keystone Pipeline, transgender rights, and immigration. (RELATED: Geraldo Rivera: Biden ‘Wants To Get Along’ But Is ‘Governing From The Left’)
“Those are not centrist ideas,” he said. “Now, I understand Joe Biden comes from the left-of-center. I understand all that, but some of these are far left-of-center ideas, so my point in that tweet was he may use the language, the rhetoric, even the demeanor of a centrist but so far his policies don’t seem to represent that and I think that’s an important thing to note as we get into these debates about different issues.”