Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is running a campaign-style press operation to push an immigration overhaul, a fitting move for a politician who needs it to bolster a rumored 2016 presidential bid.
Rubio’s Senate office has adopted a rapid- response strategy similar to Obama for America’s vaunted 2012 tactics. The Florida Republican’s team, however, is focused on taking down what it believes to be rampant misinformation about a bipartisan immigration bill crafted by the senator and seven of his colleagues.
Rubio’s office has sent 14 “Fact vs. Myth” emails since April 17, including four that went out on April 18, when fellow GOP Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and David Vitter of Louisiana held a rival news conference around the same time that the “gang of eight” introduced its bill. Rubio’s office declined to say how many staffers are working on the rapid response team, but a Republican source said there are eight aides helping with the effort.
In form, the emails look a lot like OFA’s incessant “FACT CHECK” missives that shed light on some of the 2012 campaign’s most important issues. In content, the multiple-times-per day emails have called out prominent conservative politicians, pundits and media outlets: Sessions, Vitter, The Daily Caller, The Washington Times, RedState, Breitbart, The Wall Street Journal, Ann Coulter, Mickey Kaus and Michelle Malkin...
