Arguments Against Rubio

On March 15, Marco Rubio was embarrassingly destroyed in his home state’s Presidential Primary against Donald Trump, 46%-27%. After that, he decided to drop out of the race, and has still yet to actually endorse Mr. Trump. With Rep. David Jolly and Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera floundering in the campaign, the Republican Party started pushing Marco Rubio to reverse his decision and run re-election because he would be a much better candidate.

Texas senator, Ted Cruz, won Iowa’s caucus vote for the Republican’s presidential race. Ted Cruz is in strong opposition in what Obama has done and has rallied voters who agree with him. His campaign promises to defend against terrorism and repeal Obama’s healthcare program. Many other candidates found it difficult to get a caucus vote and have decided to drop out of the presidential race. Former Arkansas governor, Mike Huckabee, dropped out of the race. Many of the other governors barely got support according to the recent Iowa

There were many different republican candidates for the republican presidential nomination. One of these candidates was Marco Rubio, a United States Senator in Florida. Marco Rubio had a pretty good start when it came to the republican primary. From reading many different articles, in the beginning of the 2016 primary, he was one of the republicans that the democrats were most worried about. As the primary’s continued though, he started to fade and it came down to his home state, Florida, whether he would continue his campaign or drop it.

Presidential campaigns often thrive on fallacies. Trump is a perfect example of this, but is not the only one. Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley, Ben Carson, etc. Marco Rubio’s campaign, in particular, relies on a overly sentimental appeals as well as combination of fallacies resulting in a scare tactic.

It’s no secret that Senator Marco Rubio has put it all on the line in his own home state of Florida but with Trump poised to seal the deal to give the fatal blow to Rubio’s presidential campaign, the stakes have never been higher.

During an appearance in Dallas, Rubio called Trump a "con artist" and read aloud from some of Trump's critical tweets, mocking him for misspellings ("chocker for

Rubio’s main focus and goal was to lower taxes, but he also worked on improving education, as well as making the government efficient. Marco Rubio’s two previous terms as the Florida Speaker of the House, was spent travelling Florida sharing, what he called “idea-raiser” meetings. These meetings were focused on addressing the key issues that the people of Florida had. In his determined effort, Marco Rubio encouraged the people of Florida to present their ideas in order to make their state stronger and successful.

This article was written for the Omaha World Herald by Paula Dwyer of the Bloomberg View. This article was published in the tuesday edition of the paper on January 12, 2016. As the title suggests the article points out how Ted Cruz has flip-flopped on an issue conveniently before a major part of the campaign season.

On the front runner Donald Trump, a candidate he has criticized a lot during his short lived presidential bid and after when endorsing Jeb Bush. “Donald, I don’t think he understands what makes America great,” Graham said in a more serious tone while urging reporters to ask Trump harder questions. “Our party and our country is going to have to step up its game.”

CNN moderator Anderson Cooper followed up, asking Cruz if he would support Trump if he would become the eventual GOP nominee. “Donald is not going to be the GOP nominee. We're going to beat him,” Cruz responded. “I think nominating Donald Trump would be an absolute trainwreck. I think it would hand the general election to Hillary Clinton. I don't want to see the White House given over to Hillary Clinton.”

He went on to add how his rivals political experience would play a factor to helping him win at the convention. "We have one guy with no experience and the other guy who experience amounts to shutting down the government and calling the majority leader a liar," Kasich said, referring to both Trump and Cruz respectively. "How do we go to a convention and we pick somebody that can't beat Hillary? I'm not gonna be a pincushion and I'm not gonna be a marshmallow."

The Boston Herald noted that all three men are in Romney's hands and are possibly seeking his rather important endorsement. Mitt Romney himself has denied that he has any favorites in the race. Bloomberg reports that he has characterized himself as "firecely neutral" about the whole matter. This has fueled rumors that he is being courted by the candidates and in Jeb Bush's case this seems to be a fair assumption. Bush has spent time complimenting Romney, calling him a "senior statesman" in the Republican party. He even said that he wished Romney was

The invitations for press to hop aboard the “Jeb Can Fix This” motor coach are an obvious throwback to Sen. John McCain’s vaunted “Straight Talk Express” from his successful 2000 and 2008 Granite State campaigns. Noting McCain had won the nomination in 2008 after a near-total campaign meltdown the summer before, Bush says they’re different people before musing, “It’s a pretty good model if you want to win.”

At the beginning of the semester our Professor gave a speech on her personal accomplishment and to start she asked us how many of us knew someone who either was or had been incarcerated. Most of us in the class raised our hands in the affirmative, including myself. This may not seem like much in a classroom with roughly 25 students, but it does have some merit. The United States of America accounts for “5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s prison population” (DuVernay, 13th). Within the last year California legislators have introduced Senate Bill 10 or the Bail: pretrial release bill, which seeks to eliminate pretrial detention and bail requirements for accused individuals who meet public safety criteria ("SB-10 Bail: pretrial release", 2017-2018). I argue that SB 10 doesn’t go far enough and should include that low level non-violent first offenders be offered alternative methods to incarceration. A policy such as SB 10 would allow California to serve as a model, reducing the effects of mass incarceration, creating a fairer system and eliminating coerced plea deals.

Because the California prison system is severely overcrowded, it is unable to deliver adequate resources and services to its inmates. In 2011, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the system—operating at 145% of its designed capacity—violates the 8th Amendment and mandated that the state significantly reduce its prison population by 2016 (Divito). Many of the state’s GOP legislators called for expansion of the state’s correctional facilities, claiming that criminals would be a threat to communities if the state relaxed enforcement or released some prisoners early (Wildermuth). While there is merit in this argument, spending money to expand jail capacities without reducing the number of people who are incarcerated only conceals the fundamental problem, rather than correcting it. Instead, a more effective alternative is to invest resources in “mental health courts, drug treatment, mental health treatment, vocational rehabilitation, evidence-based programs [in order to] reduce the population in a more sustained way” (Siders). Recently, in Los Angeles, community stakeholders have come to agree that many of the city’s offenders do not necessarily need incarceration, but instead education and outreach programs. As a result, the local justice system has begun to promote a system of restorative justice.