Scott Powers
Neither the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio nor the U.S. Senate campaign of Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera are calling it an endorsement this morning, but Rubio’s shout-out to Lopez-Cantera in Miami Sunday night sure sounded like one, according to a report.
At a Rubio rally at the Intercontinental Hotel, Rubio drew attention to his friend Lopez-Cantera and won the fellow Miami-based Cuban-American Republican a warm response with a shout-out, according to the Miami Herald’s Naked Politics blog.
“I want to introduce you to a really good friend of mine, and someone who could very well be — with your cooperation — he can be the next senator from Florida, taking the position that I leave because I’m going to be president,” Rubio said, according to Naked Politics. “His name is Carlos Lopez-Cantera.”
Lopez-Cantera is in a tough battle for the Republican nomination to succeed Rubio, along with U.S. Reps. David Jolly of St. Petersburg and Ron DeSantis of Ponte Vedra Beach, and Orlando businessman Todd Wilcox. The winner will face the winner of the Democrats’ primary between U.S. Reps. Alan Grayson of Orlando and Patrick Murphy of Jupiter.
“I am so proud that Carlos is here,” Rubio said, according to Naked Politics. “I’m so proud that he’s done it. I’m so proud of [what] he’s going to do.”
