Trump endorses Rubio for reelection

Just a few months ago, conservatives were looking for a primary challenger to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and speculation swirled around a potential Ivanka Trump challenge to him in the 2022 primary.

The threat to Rubio from within the Republican Party eased on Friday with a “Complete and Total Endorsement” from Florida’s most famous resident: former President Donald Trump.

“Marco has been a tireless advocate for the people of Florida,” Trump said in a statement issued by his Save America political organization. “Marco will never let the great people of Florida, or our Country, down!”

Though Trump has been banned from Twitter, the statement read the way his tweets used to sound, complete with unconventional capitalization.

The former president was especially happy about Rubio’s performance during his service as acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee from May 2020 until Democrats took control of the Senate this year. Trump, who has long denied any involvement in Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, said about Rubio: “He also ruled that ‘President

Trump was in no way involved with Russia,’ as he presided over the Senate Intelligence Committee on the FAKE Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax.”

Rubio thanked Trump in a statement and praised the former president’s “leadership on the major issues facing our nation.”

Rubio, in his second term and the state’s senior senator, has had a mixed relationship with the former president. Both men sought the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and criticized each other harshly during the campaign.

Trump crushed Rubio in the 2016 pres