Rubio: Negative Media Coverage and Poor Debate Performance Responsible for N.H.

‘We are going to win this campaign’

DOOCY: “The presidential candidate now vowing to bounce back and he joins us live. Good morning to you, Senator Rubio. Too bad you’re not here at the airport diner —“ 
RUBIO: “Good morning. Good morning.”
DOOCY: “— or I’d buy you breakfast today. (Laughter)
RUBIO: “I’m hungry though.”
DOOCY: “I bet you are. What happened?”
RUBIO: “Well, look, what happened is obviously Saturday night, the debate went the way it went. And then just the media coverage over the last 72 hours was very negative about it and so forth. And so the last thing voters heard going into the booth or yesterday was, you know, something bad happened on Saturday night. And so it made it very difficult for us to get any other message across. If you look at the margins between third place and fifth place, I mean, you’re just talking about a couple of thousand votes out of almost 300,000. And so that made a difference. And I felt bad, our supporters worked really hard. They did a great job. Our team here did a great job. To the extent that we finished shorter than we wanted to I think it had to do with the fact that Saturday night and the last three days and the coverage. So that’s on me and that ain’t ever going to happen again. And we’re looking forward to South Carolina, we’re headed there right now. And we’re getting back on the road here. We’re going to to win this campaign. We’re going to win this primary. It’s important for the country and I’m fired up about that.”

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