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Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio was forced to face off against a heckler at a recent campaign rally in Texas.
Shortly after Rubio took the stage, a man stood up and voiced his opinion of the Florida senator, only to be drowned out by the roar of Rubio supporters around him.
“Marco Rubio is owned by Jews!,” the heckler alleged. “Jews and Freemasons!”
In short order, another attendee slammed the interrupting man back into his seat. His outburst was seamlessly replaced with a chant — “Marco! Marco!” — from the enthusiastic crowd.
“We’ll let them take care of that,” Rubio said of the responding local police officers. “That has never happened before.”
Amid laughter throughout the audience, a few taunts aimed at the heckler were audible.
“See you later,” one individual said as Dallas cops escorted the man out of the venue.
Others expressed their support for the candidate.
“Don’t worry about it,” an attendee said.
“We love some Marco,” another added.
Referencing a less-than-flattering moment from his delivery of the GOP response to Obama’s 2013 State of the Union address, Rubio quipped, “Guys, if it happens again, I’m just going to take a sip of water.”
Transitioning back into his prepared speech, Rubio tied the man’s outburst into his depiction of America as a uniquely free nation. “This is the greatest country in the history of the world,” he declared. “People can say outrageous things and not go to jail because we are a free people.”