Rubio: ‘I Never Get Too Excited About Polls One Way or the Other’

HANNITY: “Welcome back to “Hannity” As we continue with 2016 GOP presidential candidate Senator Marco Rubio. Senator, let’s talk a little about the race, put up some poll numbers. Fox News poll has you and Ted Cruz tied at 14 percent. It seems Ben Carson, in light of a lot of — he took a lot of negative hits last week. He’s down fairly significantly. Then we have a head-to-head matchup, Fox News poll, you beating Hillary Clinton 50 to 42 percent, I believe more than any other candidate. What is your take on those polls as we now get closer to Iowa?”

RUBIO: “Well, you know, Sean, I never get too excited about polls one way or the other. We’ve been up and down. And so to me, I mean, it’s interesting to read and look at it, but I’m more interested in the direction of the race that it’s going. I mean, this is a race that’s becoming increasingly about national security, and it’s good that it has because that’s what — that’s the predominant job of a president is to be the commander-in-chief. We also have to talk about the millions of Americans who feel like outsiders in their own country, growing number of Americans who feel like they’re being left behind. They have traditional values, and if they espouse those values, they’re called bigots and haters. They’re stuck in jobs that don’t pay enough. They’re living paycheck to paycheck or they’re at home because they can’t find a job or they’ve been replaced by a machine. And then student loan debt — you’ve got these young Americans with thousands of dollars in loans, and they can’t find a job because their degree doesn’t lead to a job and the economy isn’t creating it. So, I think those are the issues we want to focus on, and those are the issues that are going to allow a Republican nominee, who I hope and believe will be me — but the Republican nominee to defeat Hillary Clinton, who has no answers to any of these problems. Her answer to every issue is a tax increase and a government program.”