Rubio on Tampa Bay Fox 13 (One of Two)

Rubio the man and the governor Charlie Crist for the U. S. and see that's being vacated by Mel Martinez Mr

Rubio Israeli welcome part he months ago practically endorsed crest but Mr Rubio the former speaker of the house son

of a Cuban refugee who enjoyed a meteoric rise in Florida politics says he is not to be counted as and

this race could set up a real fight for the soul of the party pitting the conservatives against the mob and today come somewhere that Mr Rubio's campaign to suffer the loss of two key staffers will ask him about that so we well your

calls and email at your turn a WTVT dot com and we welcome a Marco Rubio here near term in Tampa Bay good to have you here going

to be so you lost your %HESITATION campaign manager and your fundraising chairman how's this going to affect

your campaign well media outlets really what's happened is we've reorganized the campaign went when these folks came onboard we thought we were running a traditional campaign against other can't %HESITATION

brings with in all sorts of establishment vantage's so we have to run a different kind of race and so retooling the put the people employ I

can help on that campaign our finance director remains on as a as a consultant to the campaigns just fallen into a more traditional role and

be coming in as a senior adviser to retool the campaign in the meantime you know where full steam ahead so any any truth to the rumors that you could drop out of this and run for Attorney General against %HESITATION Mister Crockett no

no I'm going to run for United States Senate I've I and and I'm running for than I for some Justin climbing the political at I mean that's not the reason why I got into races attorney generals a great job and

%HESITATION you know in another time another place that would have interested me it's a very important and %HESITATION you know and what it can do for public policy in this committed

to United States believe that this is the place these are the issues I want to talk about because I think that what's happening in Washington DC that

will inherit a country less prosperous and less free than their parents that's never happened in America let's talk a little bit about about

how you're going to compete your fundraising throat so far three hundred forty thousand dollars Charlie Crist has a war chest of four point

four point three million I don't like about as bad as it looks that six hundred thousand dollars okay we raised two hundred fifty in the for and we raised six hundred thousand dollars and ten weeks of fun right we

did it with an average contributor sixty four to and when you run for I've never run before state why you don't have to build name

recognition among the you have to build a base of donors and that's what we're doing and here's the key that people don't pick up on the other people running in the street they

get those contribution to the folks who gave the money can never give it again almost ninety seven percent of the money I've raised this come from people I can give over and over again and

if they keep giving sixty four or seventy dollars every three my don't never reach the mac so the goal of our campaign is to get those donors that have given to

we're very happy and pleased with the progress we've made the second thing I would say that this is a Republican primary okay it takes six dishonor thousand votes to win this part not five me to

convince seven hundred thou right of center Republican conservatives in this on the right choice for them in the Republican Party was that that your own party pray

Klay endorse crest mainly canister well it depends how you view the party there are some party leave that tried to endorse Chris yes the chairman of the state party did how

did that make you feel it didn't really impact me here's how it made me feel really make up our party the folks at a that that work

hard a pained by campaign basis year round the build our part mostly found in the Republican executive committees all across the state overwhelmingly