CNN
By Theodore Schleifer
September 22, 2015
Donald Trump appears to have a new target: Marco Rubio.
The
Florida senator has tried to avoid antagonizing the brash Republican
front-runner, but on Tuesday evening Rubio finally landed in Trump's
crosshairs.
"Senator
Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, who has worst voting record in Senate, just hit
me on national security - but I said don't go into Iraq. VISION," Trump
tweeted.
Trump
has a tendency to attack Republicans on the rise -- from GOP
presidential rivals Jeb Bush to Carly Fiorina -- and the latest CNN/ORC
poll shows an ascendent Rubio
on the heels of his widely praised debate performance.
Earlier
on Tuesday, Rubio suggested in an interview on Fox News that Trump was
not ready to serve as commander-in-chief given Trump's sparse foreign
policy knowledge.
But
Trump's tweet could indicate that the Florida senator has awoken the
elbow-throwing Trump. Rubio has attempted to run an under-the-radar
White House campaign that
places little emphasis on winning the daily news cycle, and he has
expressed exasperation with the media's fascination with Trump's every
move. On the whole, however, Rubio has declined to tumble in the mud
with Trump.
In
return, Trump has largely avoided hitting Rubio on the stump, only
chiding him for running against his mentor, former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush.
But
the attacks that Trump now seems to have chosen are sharper: Rubio was
confronted at CNN's Republican debate about his Senate attendance
record, which has suffered
since he launched his presidential bid.
It's
also no surprise Trump -- who launched his campaign on a cry for
tougher immigration policies -- took aim at Rubio on the issue. The
Florida senator unsuccessfully
lead an attempt to pass a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill in
2013 that would have provided a path to citizenship for some
undocumented immigrants, among other reforms.
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