HE MADE a myth of himself until the end. After being whacked by Donald Trump in his home state of Florida, 46% to 27%, Marco Rubio insisted it was wonderful that the son of Cuban immigrants, with no connections or money, had been able even to run for president. But he couldn’t make second place sound like a triumph, as he had previously tried to, as if by a process of suggestion victories would magically begin to materialise. As a small crowd chanted his name, yelled “No” and took selfies, Mr Rubio bowed out.
The post-mortem had begun even before his campaign’s demise. Its failure was attributed to his loopy malfunction in the televised debate in New Hampshire; or to his delay in attacking Mr Trump, a reticence unwisely followed by a roll in the gutter with the front-runner, when, with his puerile gibes, Mr Rubio implicated himself in the one-off spectacle of a presidential candidate bragging, on air, about his penis. Analysts mentioned his competition for donors and backing with Jeb Bush, another Floridian, and his role in a doomed, bipartisan push for immigration reform in the Senate in 2013, a pragmatic stance regarded as heretical by many...Continue reading
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