Mitch Perry
Marco Rubio‘s performance at last week’s debate apparently garnered the attention of Hillary Clinton — or at least his comments on abortion have in the past few days.
The Democratic front-runner for president in 2016 spoke to reporters in Exeter, N.H. on Monday, and used the occasion to rip into Rubio for his stance that he thinks there should be no exceptions when it comes to aborting a fetus, even if it was conceived via rape or incest.
“When one of their major candidates — a much younger man, the senator from Florida — says there should be no exceptions for rape and incest, that is as offensive and as troubling a comment as you can hear from a major candidate running for the presidency,” Clinton said, after criticizing Donald Trump for his comments regarding Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly that dominated the news cycle this weekend. “So the language may be more colorful and more offensive, but the thinking, the attitude toward women is very much the same. It is just delivered in a different package,” she said.
Hours later, Team Rubio fired back.
“Hillary Clinton supports abortion even at the stage when an unborn child can feel pain,” began a statement from the campaign. “She has defended partial birth abortions as a ‘fundamental right;’ she opposes requiring parents to be notified that their minor daughter is having an abortion; she supports funding Planned Parenthood even after they have been exposed for their role in selling the organs of unborn children; and she supports using taxpayer money to pay for abortions overseas. Hillary Clinton holds radical views on abortion that we look forward to exposing in the months to come.”
Rubio has often mentioned and criticized Clinton on the campaign trail, seemingly always to emphasize his youth vs. hers: He’s 44, she’s 67.
But Rubio admitted during Thursday night’s debate in Cleveland that Clinton has more experience than him.
“If this election is a resume competition then Hillary Clinton is going to be the next president,” he said.
