Marco Rubio's polling crashes to lowest-ever level after his disastrous CNN town hall on gun safety

[applegrove]

Marco Rubio's polling crashes to lowest-ever level after his disastrous CNN town hall on gun safety

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/27/1745322/-Marco-Rubio-s-polling-crashes-to-lowest-ever-level-after-his-disastrous-CNN-town-hall-on-gun-safety

David Nir at Daily Kos

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Last week, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio got utterly shredded at a CNN town hall over his “pathetically weak” stance on gun safety. But it wasn’t just progressive activists or folks on Twitter who were furious with him. Rubio’s disastrous performance has now registered very, very clearly with a wide swath of Florida voters, according to Quinnipiac’s latest poll—which was conducted entirely after the CNN event.

Q: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Marco Rubio is handling his job as United States Senator?

Approve: 38

Disapprove: 53

As you can see in the graphic at the top of this post, which charts Rubio’s job approval ratings ever since he first joined the Senate in 2011, that -15 score is his all-time worst. And this wasn’t just some unlucky poll for Republicans: GOP Gov. Rick Scott simultaneously posted his best approval rating in the very same survey.

It’s rare that we can point to a single event and say it caused a politician’s poll numbers to shoot up or dive down, but this certainly seems to be one such case. The public is disgusted with the GOP’s deliberate inaction on gun safety, and if Republicans don’t want to wind up in the Dumpster like Rubio, they’d better act.

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[FloridaBlues]

1. He was just reelected in 2016. Has a long way to go before poll numbers bother him

Too bad his numbers wasn't like this last election cycle.

[applegrove]

4. You forget he is going to run for President starting in 2019. GOP has been

letting him site dissent on the worst of the GOP legislation when it passes. He's running. Or he was.

[TeamPooka]

14. He can play with himself for four years and then worry about running or not

[SoCalMusicLover]

2. He Cares Not

He won't be up for re-election until November 2022. His #'s could drop even lower, and it won't bother him yet.

[Cha]

3. That's got to be good news.

keep it up, Rubio

Mahalo, apple~

[Fred Sanders]

10. Snake Scott did not go. Scott is a snake, but a smart one, give him that.

But he can not slither under the swamp forever on gun control in Florida and face the young voters and their parents and teachers.

[Amaryllis]

12. WHat I was thinking too. If he had gone, he would not have fared any better than Marco

in the hands of the brilliant Parkland youth.

[quartz007]

5. When is Rubio up for re-election?

I am a new Florida voter and can't wait to vote for his opponent.

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. November of 2022.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. I fear we're in for an upset in the US Senate with Scott on the ballot. I hope I'm wrong.

[babylonsister]

8. Did he declare?

I fear that's a possibility though many people here know what a creep he has been/is.
And then there are those who will vote for anyone with an (R) after their name. They don't care about issues.

Two years ago I saw a beat up old truck in Melbourne with a great bumper sticker on his window:
RICK SCOTT IS AN ASSHOLE.

My heart soared!

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. I don't know that he's declared, but the polling between he & Nelson is deadlocked, and that makes..

me sad. He'll make some phony deal with the NRA that won't really solve the problem, but will be seen as "taking action". As I said, I hope I'm wrong.

[Fred Sanders]

15. Scott fears the Parkland students, 3000 of them and 3 degrees of separation from them are

going to destroy his polling and his chances.

He is going to have to face them sooner or later and the issue of gun regulation, and not in a Foxxx studio.

[ffr]

11. Time for Marco Rubio and other conservatives to move on.

Their era has passed. *** Flush ***

[Awsi Dooger]

13. Rubio is currently meaningless but Scott's uptick is sickening

I'm in Miami. Scott is receiving positive publicity for maybe the first extended period during his two terms.