A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s senior Senator is warning that the Democratic vice presidential nominee may be compromised by being too close to America’s principal rival.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio posted to X that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “is an example of how Beijing patiently grooms future American leaders.”
“Decades later they get into positions of power, are portrayed as ‘experts’ by the media & push for policies that allow China to steal our jobs & factories & flood America with drugs,” Rubio asserted.
Rubio was responding to a Washington Post editorial that argues Walz’s “decades of China experience are an asset, not a liability,” a piece lauding his “35-year relationship with the Chinese people” and pushing back against unfriendly framings of the Democrat relationship with China.
“Since Walz’s selection, his critics have rejected such nuance. On Tuesday, conservative commentators criticized Walz for teaching a ‘CCP-approved course in China’ (he taught English at a high school in Guangdong province) and for getting married on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and visiting China on his honeymoon,” argued Josh Rogin.
Walz has yet to take media questions since entering the race, though any eventual interview may touch on these subjects.
Rubio, as followers of his career know, has been a hawk when it comes to the Cold War with China, urging his colleagues in Washington to take a more critical look at Beijing’s operations.
“In the history of the world, no country has ever invested so much money so fast in undermining and overtaking the United States. The Soviet Union didn’t have that money. No one else has ever done it. This is the biggest challenge we have ever faced,” Rubio said in 2023 during a Fox Business Channel interview with Maria Bartiromo.
Rubio said in a 2022 speech to the Heritage Foundation that China poses a specific threat to the American-centered world order.
“They believe in raw power,” Rubio said, decrying the “naive, bipartisan widely held belief” in recent decades that globalization could change that fundamental condition.”
12 comments
PeterH
August 8, 2024 at 11:40 am
Good grief! Why do Florida residents keep voting for the is do nothing MAGA kook?
Republicans are America’s worst enemy!
Vote all Republicans out of office!
Tib
August 8, 2024 at 12:02 pm
And Rubio was groomed by the Cuban communists to destroy American. Get real little Marco and stop you lies.
Vera
August 9, 2024 at 12:45 am
I think Rubio is doing a wonderful job for all Americans and not just Cubans. He should be treated respectably.
Tjb
August 10, 2024 at 9:21 am
Vera, go troll else where. Rubio is a trump puppet.
Michael K
August 8, 2024 at 12:12 pm
For crying out loud. What kind of drugs is he on?
And yet he gives his orange messiah a complete pass on his bromance with Putin and Orban?
We deserve better.
Vera
August 9, 2024 at 12:47 am
I think you should be kind. I don’t like negative people saying what they do not know. Educate yourself on both the left and rt.
seldomseensmith
August 8, 2024 at 1:27 pm
If he weren’t destroying the country, I’d feel sorry for little marco.
He has no confidence, no beliefs and no spine.
Vera
August 9, 2024 at 12:50 am
He is destroying the country? You need to study him more regarding what he has done for us as a FL senator and say thank you or nothing.
Bill Pollard
August 8, 2024 at 5:17 pm
Marco Rubio is acting a fool.
Ocean Joe
August 8, 2024 at 5:49 pm
He told us back in 2015 that Donald Trump was “dangerously unprepared to be president” and was proven right. In bed with Putin, Trump rewards the guy who keeps the remnants of the Castro regime in power. I guess nobody on Calle Ocho notices or cares about that. Marco wants to be an attack dog like Cowbell and Dirty Ricky. Otherwise Trump will find a way to punish him.
Vera
August 9, 2024 at 12:52 am
He was running as President at the time. All said terrible things of others to win. They are great friends and joined forces to try to stop wars.
Rochard Glukstad
August 17, 2024 at 2:32 pm
Since NOBODY in American politics has much INTEGRITY anymore, whatever any of them say is of little value and consequence. It’s all about them winning and maintaining themselves in power, noting else.So today they are anti-X and tomorrow pro-X.
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