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A 2016 Candidate Just Used Bill Clinton’s Trick Against Hillary In An Oddly Similar Way
Marco Rubio’s campaign team used a 19-year-old photo of the Clintons as the inspiration for the Florida senator’s online birthday card. The Republican presidential hopeful is among the top contenders in recent polls.
Ahead of his 44th birthday Thursday, Rubio’s campaign account tweeted this to supporters encouraging them to wish the senator a happy birthday:
Marco’s birthday is tomorrow! Sign his card and wish him a Happy 44th Birthday –> http://t.co/HMawX4FnQx pic.twitter.com/OZTjs332oe
— Team Marco (@TeamMarco) May 27, 2015
And some people inevitably wished him a happy birthday:
Happy Birthday to our favorite presidential candidate, @marcorubio! #HappyBirthday #TeamMarco #NextPOTUS pic.twitter.com/ZeC7AJFQbi — Team Marco Colorado (@TeamMarcoCO) May 28, 2015
RT @SCGOP: Happy Birthday Senator @MarcoRubio! Thanks for supporting S.C. Republicans. pic.twitter.com/kRRJZZGMJi @TeamMarco
— Katie Baham Gainey (@katiebaham) May 28, 2015
Happy to share my birthday with our next President @marcorubio #DayOneSupporter @TeamMarco — Scott Ross (@SLRoss528) May 28, 2015
And the senator expressed his gratitude:
Thank you for all the kind birthday wishes!
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 28, 2015
But the card looks eerily similar to the cake former president Bill Clinton enjoyed on his 50th birthday, only 10 weeks before his 1996 re-election. The scattering of ‘50s’ across the blue field on the cake was designed to highlight Clinton’s youthfulness contrasted with his Republican opponent, Bob Dole, a former senator from Kansas. Dole is 23 years Clinton’s senior.
Similarly, Clinton’s wife and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is 67, 23 years Rubio’s senior.
A RealClearPolitics average of polling data tracking GOP hopefuls has Rubio in third, trailing only former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, respectively.
h/t: The Weekly Standard
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/a-2016-candidate-just-used-bill-clintons-trick-against-hillary-in-an-oddly-similar-way/
