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skipped a corporate health insurance change meeting for a parent teacher conference? 
How many voters do you think have taken mental health days?
The answer: Lots.
Many of us can also understand why Rubio might have cashed in a $68,000 retirement fund, even if the penalties were $24,000. It’s still $43,000 cash on hand he probably didn’t have just lying around before. Maybe Mr. Trump has that in his wallet. But Marco Rubio does not. And maybe one of his kids needed braces. Maybe there were medical expenses for an ailing elderly relative. Maybe he needed to make some repairs around the house or to take a vacation. Maybe he wanted to pay back some of his student loans.
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Rubio said at the last debate that he wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, like some people. Well, those are Ladra’s words. His words were “I didn’t inherit anything.” Unlike , say, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush or Trump, who
we have much less in common with and both of whom have slid in the polls and, as Rubio rises, tried to paint to him as an immature money squanderer.
It ain’t working.
Fusion spoke to a group of young voters after the debate last week to see if any of them might not vote for Rubio based on the attacks on his personal finances. Most if not all of them related to him better because they, also, did not inherit anything.
“It made him look better. They helped him out, instead of bringing him down,” one young man said. “It showed that he’s actually working hard to pay off his debts.”
“He knows exactly what we’re going through,” said another. “It made me think Marco Rubio would make a good president. He knows what we’re going through and he knows what needs to be done.”
Many voters also know what it’s like to have traffic tickets — which was the crux of an earlier attack by the New York Times which tried to make a big deal of Rubio’s four tickets in 17 years. Heck, in South Florida, that probably constitutes “safe driver” status.
Other recent attacks have been more about his friends — namely former Congressman David Rivera, a constant alleged 
center of several investigations that go nowhere and could be politically motivated, and former State Rep. Ralph Arza, a racist idiot who was forced to resign after someone let him drunk dial a colleague and spew hate. But, in reality, while the senator has surrounded himself with other perhaps more noble people, he has also stayed friends with pals from the good old days when he was a freshman state rep before he was even Speaker. He hasn’t turned his back on them after going big. Is that something to mock? No, that’s loyalty. Not a bad trait. Politicians dump their friends when they become problematic. Normal people don’t.
This is why they have had to turn to the latest gotcha — about Rubio’s propensity to perspire.
Really. I kid you not. Trump says Marco Rubio sweats too much. He also, apparently, drinks too much water. Well, this is Florida. We all sweat. We all have cases of bottled water in our homes. Zephyrhills, if we’re loyal to the state.
It’s just one more thing that we have in common with our senator.
More and more, these attacks make it look like Rubio will be the next president of the United States after all. Because if this is the best that they can do digging up dirt on him, then he deserves the White House.
And it would be like sending one of us there.
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