Rubio could have followed Scott’s lead and backed out, made up some bullshit excuse about how he had something so important that he couldn’t spare time for this horror show. Yeah, he’d have been branded a coward for doing so, but he would have spared himself the dragging that went on last night. This is the kinda performance that is going to stick with him, clips from last night are gonna be made into campaign ads come 2022.

He did himself no favors and actually killed any chance he might have had of running in the 2020 GOP primary.