Rubio criticizes the media’s treatment of Trump in clash with Anderson Cooper: ‘He’s going to strike back’

Florida Senator Marco Rubio defended former President Trump’s attacks on the media and Democrats during his final message to voters this week, saying he will “strike back” against his critics.

During a Tuesday interview, CNN host Anderson Cooper asked Rubio whether those in Trump’s inner circle wished he had focused on the economy and the border in his latest message to voters instead of “going down the wrong path” by mounting attacks traps. Nancy Pelosi during a campaign rally on Monday.

“Well, this is a man who has been compared to Adolf Hitler,” Rubio began, highlighting major networks such as MSNBC who has compared his rallies to Nazi rallies.

The two clashed after Cooper intervened to remind Rubio of disparaging comments he and Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, had made about Trump in recent years.

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“That was his vice president calling him Adolf Hitler,” Cooper said.

In 2016, Vance said Trump could be America’s ‘Hitler’, in comments he has since made rejected many times.

Rubio again brought up media coverage of the former president and his supporters to argue that there has been unfair treatment of the Republican presidential nominee.

“Maybe it wasn’t your network, although I could point to things in your network that label everything he says as violent rhetoricincluding jokes and including things that are clearly not obvious. But he has a unique communication style and he won’t change the day before. This is the man who has been subjected to brutal and brutal attacks on his character, on everything you can imagine. Yes, he’s going to strike back. There’s no doubt about it. That’s going to happen,” Rubio said.

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“So to claim that Kamala Harris hasn’t mentioned his name in the last 24 hours, after you get Oprah Winfrey – and look, I don’t really care, celebrities can endorse whoever they want – but last night she said something at a rally : ‘If you are not voting today, you will never get the chance to vote again.” Real? Come on. This is silly stuff,” he continued. “Yes, there will definitely be a blow to that, there’s no doubt about that.”

At Harris’ final campaign rally in Philadelphia on Monday, Winfrey told voters they could not stay home this election or they could lose their right to vote.

“We cannot wait this out. “If we don’t show up tomorrow, it’s very possible we’ll never get the chance to vote again,” she warned.

Cooper told Rubio that Trump had also used his own charged rhetoric about the election in recent days, before again bringing up Vance’s previous comments about Trump.

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Rubio said Vance had changed his mind about Trump, claiming that “a lot of people” who did not vote for the Republican candidate in the past two elections would vote for him this election because of concerns about the economy, the cost of living and the direction who went onto the land.

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‘You know what they say to themselves? When Donald Trump was president, life was more affordable, our country was safer, stronger and more respected in the world. And at the end of the day, that’s what’s going to matter,” Rubio said. “When people put gas in their cars, when people have to pay their bills at the end of the month, they think they will be better off under Donald Trump than under the presidency of Kamala Harris. That’s what’s going to matter at some point. There is no doubt that both parties say this is the definition of an election that will determine the future of the country.”