Lenny Curry “proud to have supported Marco Rubio,” but “the people spoke”
Lenny Curry at the Jax opening of the Marco Rubio HQ

Lenny Curry

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry was a strong Marco Rubio supporter. However, he said Wednesday, Florida voters  emphatically made their decision.

“I’m proud to have supported my friend,” Curry said, yet “the people spoke.” For Curry “it’s time to move on,” he said to a press gaggle, reinforcing comments he made Monday at a Jacksonville Marco Rubio Meet and Greet event.

“The voters disagreed with me,” Curry said.

Curry, as he did Monday, reiterated that he is a “conservative” and that he will support a candidate who most closely aligns with that. And that candidate will be the Republican nominee … even if it’s Trump.

In what he said was an “irony in the date,” Curry meets with Trump Florida Co-Chairwoman Susie Wiles Wednesday afternoon.

On this same day, of course, Rick Scott endorsed Trump.

The meeting, Curry said, was “scheduled long ago” and is “not a Trump meeting.”

City Hall observers will look for Curry in a Make America Great Again hat in the future, as he endeavors to unify a fractious party behind a nominee no one credibly predicted in June.

Of course, some will note, people said the same about Curry when he launched his mayoral race.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski



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