{"id":353160,"date":"2010-02-23T10:31:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=12413"},"modified":"2010-02-23T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:31:41","slug":"marco-rubio-heads-to-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/353160","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Heads to South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI, Fla-\u00a0 Florida GOP senate candidate Marco Rubio will be traveling to South Carolina next month to take part in a joint fundraising swing of the Palmetto state with one of his political mentors, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), Fox News Channel\u00a0can confirm.First reported by CNN,<\/a> the DeMint campaign will also create a\u00a0website DeMintRubio.com\u00a0next week that will highlight the tour.<\/p>\n

DeMint was one of Rubio’s earliest supporters, who bucked the trend of some of his Republican colleagues, and the National Senatorial Republican Committee by endorsing Rubio’s\u00a0\u00a0senate quest,\u00a0which was deemed quixotic, at the time,\u00a0by\u00a0many GOP campaign analysts because of Crist’s large lead in early polls. Last week, DeMint also\u00a0enthusiastically introduced Rubio at the Conservative Political Action Conference<\/a> before\u00a0his key note\u00a0speech in D.C., that some conservatives are calling Rubio’s launch onto the national conservative scene.<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite reports questioning Rubio’s arrival at an early primary state on the\u00a02012\u00a0 schedule,\u00a0his campaign\u00a0sought to\u00a0emphatically downplay\u00a0the visit.<\/p>\n

“CNN totally overwrote this. Marco is going to travel with Demint to a bunch of small dollar events to raise money for the senate campaign,” a senior Rubio aide told Fox News producer Jake Gibson.<\/a><\/p>\n

“It\u2019s disappointing that Speaker Rubio\u2019s new found fame would lead him to so quickly forget Floridians, “Amanda Henneberg, Crist\u00a0 press secretary, said in an email\u00a0.”\u00a0Slowly but surely, we are seeing more of who the real Marco Rubio is \u2013 someone who routinely puts politics and political aspirations (and in this case South Carolina) above the people.”<\/p>\n

DeMint’s spokesman scoffs at the\u00a0Crist campaign’s assertion, saying Rubio and DeMint’s lap around South Carolina is to help Rubio raise campaign funds to combat Crist’s large\u00a0war chest of roughly $ 7 .5 million cash on hand. At last count, Rubio had about $ 2 million.<\/p>\n

“Rubio is surging in the polls but Gov. Crist still has a big fundraising advantage. Rubio wasn’t the choice of the Washington establishment so he must build grassroots support.”Wesley Denton,\u00a0DeMint’s\u00a0spokesman tells\u00a0Fox.”Senator DeMint is committed to helping Marco raise the resources needed to get his message out, which is why the Senator sponsored an online money bomb for Rubio this month and is planning the events in South Carolina in March.”\u00a0
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MIAMI, Fla-\u00a0 Florida GOP senate candidate Marco Rubio will be traveling to South Carolina next month to take part in a joint fundraising swing of the Palmetto state with one of his political mentors, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), Fox News Channel\u00a0can confirm.First reported by CNN, the DeMint campaign will also create a\u00a0website DeMintRubio.com\u00a0next week that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}