Video: Mia Love endorses Rubio

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Hot Air:

Ed Morrissey

November 19, 2015

 

Second look among conservatives at Marco Rubio? Or second look among conservatives, and not in a good way, at Mia Love, who has been a Tea Party favorite over the past few years? Team Rubio clearly hopes for the former, but Love had better prepare for at least a little of the latter:

 

 

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From Rubio’s perspective, this is all upside. Love, despite the Boehner controversy, remains a well-liked figure for most Republicans, and he gains both goodwill and a dynamic campaign surrogate. Regardless of whether it improves his standing with skeptics in the base, it’s a solid get.

 

But will it improve matters for Rubio with those voters? NBC News reminds readers that Love lost a little of her luster among activists when she supported John Boehner for Speaker, but that she — like Rubio himself — owed her rise to her Tea Party connections. She might add to another argument for Rubio too, albeit not an exclusive one:

 

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