Freshman Florida Sen. Marco Rubio brushes off the Jeb Bush campaign's comparison of him to President Barack Obama, himself a freshman senator when elected to the White House in 2008.
Obama's problem, Rubio said Sunday on
"Face the Nation," isn't his lack of experience, but the fact that he has bad ideas.
"Barack Obama he has now been president for seven years. He has significant executive experience and he's still making mistakes, in my opinion," Rubio said. "And so it's clear that the issue with him is not that he didn't have executive experience, it's that his ideas do not work."
Rubio said that he will have those right ideas that the country needs, and that his youth actually is an asset because it puts him more in touch with current needs.
"I know there are people running with more experience than I do on issues we faced 17 years ago. But on issues before America today that's what we should be debating," he said.
As for Jeb Bush's accusation that he is missing votes to run for president, Rubio said he is running so future votes will count. He wants to see a Republican president who won't veto GOP efforts in the House and Senate.
"What I would hate is to wake up on first Wednesday of November to the news that Hillary Clinton has been elected president of the United States," he said.
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