CBS, NBC Hit Rubio over Finances; ‘On the Defensive’ Opening Door for ‘Attacks from Rivals’

Curtis Houck | November 4, 2015
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With his continued rise in the 2016 Republican presidential polls, the liberal media has circled back to attacking Marco Rubio over his personal finances with the latest attack pieces coming on Wednesday’s editions of the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News as both minimized the fact that Rubio was exonerated by a Florida ethics commission back in 2012. 

Turning first to NBC, anchor Lester Holt hyped that while “Marco Rubio is enjoying a surge in the Republican polls, but with more attention comes more scrutiny” with him spending Wednesday “the defensive about his own finances.”