WASHINGTON (CNN) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday that Donald Trump is the most vulgar person to ever run for President of the United States.
“Donald Trump has been perhaps the most vulgar — no I don’t think perhaps — the most vulgar person to ever aspire to the presidency in terms of how he’s carried out his candidacy,” he told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day.”
The Florida senator was responding to a question about a moment during Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox News when Trump assured American voters that despite what Rubio suggested on the campaign trail, there was “no problem” with the size of his hands — or anything else.
“Look at those hands, are they small hands?” the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination said, raising them for viewers to see. “And, he referred to my hands — ‘if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”
Rubio said Trump’s vulgarity has prevented candidates from discussing the policies affecting the American people.
“The majority of the questions had something to do with he said or she said,” he said. “I would love to have a policy debate. I think that’s important. We’re talking about the presidency of the United States here.”
Rubio in recent days on the campaign trail ramped up his teasing of the brash billionaire, including reviving a decades-old old insult, mocking Trump for having relatively slight hands.
“He’s always calling me Little Marco. And I’ll admit he’s taller than me. He’s like 6’2, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5’2,” Rubio said in Virginia on Sunday. “And you know what they say about men with small hands? You can’t trust them.”
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