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Marco Rubio has something in common with his Republican primary opponent Ted Cruz: They’re both getting poor marks in media “fact checks” that seem more about point of view than points of data.
Not long after the Florida senator announced this week that he would run for president in 2016, the Associated Press targeted his speech for a “fact check.” The AP’s review, titled “FACT CHECK: Rubio Rhetoric Breaks With Past, but Ideas Don’t,” scrutinizes some of the Florida senator’s lighter rhetorical flourishes
The Republican lawmaker received a mostly failing grade from AP.
Rubio said when he announced his White House bid that, “Too many of our leaders and their ideas are stuck in the 20th century.”