Whit Ayres’ comments to The Guardian on Marco Rubio:
Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who worked on Rubio’s successful 2010 Senate campaign and his failed presidential campaign, said his former client faced a choice of adapting or becoming politically extinct.
“Republican elected officials in the Trump era have two choices. They can accommodate themselves to the new leader of their party, or they can leave office,” he said. “Marco has accommodated himself to the new leadership, and has succeeded as a result.”
He has done so, Ayres insists, without compromising his basic beliefs.
“He has always believed that the world is a better and safer place when America plays a leading role, which is one reason why he’s been so active in this effort to take out Maduro,” he said. “He has believed for at least 10 years that Maduro was a cancer on Venezuela society and needed to go.”
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