Rubio slams media's treatment of Trump in clash with Anderson Cooper: 'He's going to punch back'

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio defended erstwhile President Trump's attacks against the media and Democrats during his closing connection to voters this week, saying he's "going to punch back" against his critics.

During a Tuesday interview, CNN big Anderson Cooper asked Rubio if those successful Trump's orbit privation helium would person focused connected the system and the borderline successful his last connection to voters alternatively than "going disconnected connected tangents" by attacking Nancy Pelosi at a run rally connected Monday.

"Well, this is simply a feline that's been compared to Adolf Hitler," Rubio began, highlighting large networks like MSNBC who've compared his rallies to Nazi rallies.

The 2 clashed aft Cooper chopped successful to punctual Rubio of disparaging comments helium and Trump's moving mate, Sen. JD Vance, made astir Trump successful years past.

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Republican Sen. Marco Rubio defended erstwhile President Trump during a clash connected CNN implicit Trump's rhetoric. (Screenshot/CNN)

"That was his Vice President who called him Adolf Hitler," Cooper said. 

In 2016, Vance said that Trump could beryllium America's "Hitler," successful comments helium has since disavowed galore times.

Rubio again brought up the media's reporting connected the erstwhile president and his supporters to reason there's been unfair attraction of the Republican statesmanlike candidate.

"Maybe it wasn‘t your network, though I could constituent to things successful your web that statement thing helium says as convulsive rhetoric, including jokes and including things that are intelligibly disconnected the cuff. But helium has a unsocial connection style, and helium is not going to alteration the time before. This is the feline who has been subjected to relentless and ruthless attacks against his character, against everything you tin imagine. Yeah, helium is going to punch back. There's nary uncertainty astir it. That's going to happen," Rubio said.

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Oprah Winfrey speaks connected signifier during Democratic statesmanlike nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' run rally successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 4, 2024.  (REUTERS/Hannah McKay)

"So to reason that successful the past 24 hours, Kamala Harris has not mentioned his name, aft you‘ve got Oprah Winfrey – and look, I don't truly care, celebrities tin endorse who they privation — but past nighttime she said thing astatine a rally, ‘If you don‘t ballot today, you ne'er get a accidental to ballot again.’ Really? Come on. This is silly stuff," helium continued. "Yeah there's going to beryllium immoderate punch backmost connected that, nary uncertainty astir it."

During Harris' last run rally successful Philadelphia connected Monday, Winfrey told voters they can't enactment location this predetermination oregon they mightiness suffer their voting rights.

"We don't get to beryllium this 1 out. If we don't amusement up tomorrow, it is wholly imaginable that we volition not person the accidental to ever formed a ballot again," she warned.

Cooper told Rubio that Trump had besides been utilizing his ain charged rhetoric astir the predetermination successful the last days, earlier again bringing up Vance's past remarks astir Trump.

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Republican vice statesmanlike nominee Sen. JD Vance arrives to ballot astatine the St. Anthony of Padua Maronite Catholic Church connected predetermination day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, successful Cincinnati.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Rubio said that Vance had changed his caput astir Trump and claimed "a batch of people" who didn't ballot for the GOP campaigner successful the past 2 elections would ballot for him this predetermination due to the fact that of concerns astir the economy, the outgo of surviving and the absorption the state was headed.

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"You cognize what they are saying to themselves? When Donald Trump was president, beingness was much affordable, our state was safer and it was stronger and much respected successful the world. And ultimately, that is what's going to matter," Rubio said. "When radical spell enactment state successful their car, erstwhile radical person to wage their bills astatine the extremity of the month, they judge they volition beryllium amended disconnected nether Donald Trump past they volition nether a Kamala Harris presidency. That's what's going to substance connected a regular ground and going to substance for the aboriginal of the country. There's nary uncertainty some sides are saying that this is the explanation of an predetermination that volition find the aboriginal of the country."