Marco Rubio’s Public Relations Challenge
Tue, Dec. 16, 2025
By Fraser P. Seitel
Every day, Marco Rubio is forced to walk a delicate public relations line where he unhesitatingly supports Donald Trump’s policies while not encouraging the President's obnoxious personal peccadilloes.

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