With Election Day approaching, Republican incumbent and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio paid a visit to Florida Keys supporters at Snook’s Bayside in Key Largo on Oct. 22. Rubio is vying for another term in Washington against Democrat Val Demings, Orlando’s first female chief of police.
A roughly 10-minute speech by Rubio highlighted the need to stop those who control the U.S. House, Senate and the White House, or else “they’ll destroy the greatest country in the world.” Rubio attacked Democrats for the out-of-control inflation, rising gas prices and the administration’s move to draw upon the strategic oil reserve.
“They’re saying we need to put fossil fuels out of business, but they’re begging Saudi Arabia to produce more oil because Saudi Arabia oil is good for the economy and American oil is bad for the environment,” he said.
Rubio also discussed out-of-control crime and the country’s border crisis, which the Keys and southern border states are experiencing. “No country on Earth can allow 5,000 people a day to just come into the country,” he said.
Rubio concluded his speech by encouraging everyone to vote. If we get everybody out to vote and we turn out and vote, we’re going to win,” he said.
Former Monroe County Commissioner Sylvia Murphy, Monroe County State Attorney Dennis Ward, South Florida PBA president Steadman Stahl and Rhonda Rebman Lopez were among the speakers at Rubio’s event.
