“Marco Rubio knew exactly what he was doing on Saturday night. Marco Rubio knew exactly what he was doing on Saturday night. Marco Rubio knew exactly what he was doing on Saturday night. The problem was he flubbed it. Rubio awkwardly pivoted four times to a well-rehearsed line that President Barack Obama ‘knows exactly what he’s doing’ as he tried to drill home the idea that he’s the inevitable general election candidate – an unforced error that his rivals pounced on and that quickly went viral. ‘There it is. There it is. The memorized 25-second speech. There it is, everybody,’ Chris Christie charged.” — from a 2.6 assessment of Saturday’s Republican debate by Politico‘s Shane Goldmacher.
