In the aftermath of the bruising midterm elections, Secretary of State Marco Rubio took a moment on Friday to remind voters why they had elected President Donald Trump two years earlier.
Rubio, began with a light-hearted crack about the multiple jobs he holds within the Trump administration — currently serving as National Security Adviser in addition to his duties at the State Department — and attributed at least a portion of the damage wrought in Tuesday’s elections to President Trump’s willingness to make tough decisions, even when they might not give him any political advantage.
“I see firsthand that this is a man who wakes up every morning with one thing as a priority: you,” Rubio said. “Our country and its future. The most important thing a president can do for a country is to keep it safe, and there are people around the world that want to destroy it. They want to destroy our country, they want to destroy our way of life.”
“[Trump] was elected to do the hard things — the hard things. It would have been very easy to do what multiple presidents before him have done, which is to ignore the Iran thing, leave it for the next guy,” Rubio continued. “Put it aside and don’t worry abo...