Sen. Marco Rubio
Marco Antonio RubioSunday shows preview: All eyes on Biden administration to tackle coronavirus Rubio: Biden 'talking like a centrist' but governing 'from the radical left' The Hill's Morning Report - Biden's crisis agenda hits headwinds MORE (R-Fla.) said Sunday that he would vote to dismiss the article of impeachment against former President Trump
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“I think the trial is stupid,” Rubio said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We already have a flaming fire in this country,” he added, saying the trial would be “a bunch of gasoline.”
“The first chance I get to vote to end this trial I’ll do it,” the Florida senator told Fox News’s Chris Wallace
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Rubio went on to say that then-President Ford’s pardon of former President Nixon after his resignation was “in hindsight important” for “moving the country forward” despite widespread consensus that Nixon had committed criminal offenses.
“I think [Trump is] entitled to due process,” Rubio added. “The House doesn’t have much of a record of witnesses because they rammed it through very quickly … I think this is going to be very bad for the country.”
Sen. Mitt Romney
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Wallace went on to ask Rubio, who is up for reelection in 2022, about rumors that former White House adviser Ivanka Trump
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“I don’t really get into the parlor games of Washington,” Rubio said.
“I don’t own the Senate seat, it doesn’t belong to me," he added. "If I want to be back in the U.S Senate, I have to earn that every six years.”
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