Days after endorsing Marco Rubio for president, Rick Santorum said “it’s hard” to name a significant accomplishment the Rubio has had in the Senate.
“If you look at being a minority in the United States Senate in four years where nothing got done, I guess it’s hard to say that there are accomplishments when nothing was done,” Santorum said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Tell me what happened in those four years that was an accomplishment for anybody.”
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The former Pennsylvania senator ended his presidential campaign earlier this week after fairing poorly in the Iowa caucuses. Despite failing to name any Senate accomplishments, Santorum said Rubio has “tremendous potential and gifts.”
“He spent four years in the United States Senate being frustrated like everybody else that nothing got done and then you can’t point to him and say well nothing got done therefore he has no accomplishments,” Santorum said.
But South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who also endorsed Rubio earlier this week, said the Florida senator is the candidate best prepared to lead the country.
Rubio’s life story has given him “real ideas” to help the least privileged in society, Scott said Thursday on CNN’s “New Day.”
“He inspires a new generation of voters. Here’s a guy who has a wonderful life story, but who also knows how to create a political agenda based on the reality that so many people are suffering through,” he said. “Folks who are stuck and mired in poverty can look to the leadership of Marco Rubio to help solve some of the challenges that we haven’t been able to solve in 50 years.”
Scott said Rubio, the son of a bartender who immigrated from Cuba, is the candidate best positioned to help working-class Americans fulfill their goals. Scott mentioned growing up in poverty and being attracted to Rubio’s ideas to help more Americans ascend to the middle class.
“The reality of it is the American Dream is still alive. It is still healthy. We need a president who helps us get there and that guy is Marco Rubio,” he said.
