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.@marcorubio: “The president shouldn’t have written that. I think it damages him. It damages the country, and none of us should be participants in identity politics,” he told reporters, per @byrdinator
2/ “I don’t read into people’s intentions,” Rubio said when asked if the remarks were racist. “That’s actually part of the problem, is we throw these terms around today.”
“I can only tell you when presidents speak it has an impact,” he added.
“I can only tell you when presidents speak it has an impact,” he added.
3/ Rubio said growing up in Miami he heard similar comments.
“I think the implication by anyone that you’re not as American as someone else because your parents were born somewhere else is...directly counter to what makes America unique,” he told reporters.
“I think the implication by anyone that you’re not as American as someone else because your parents were born somewhere else is...directly counter to what makes America unique,” he told reporters.
