Suddenly Marco Rubio is Siding With Workers?

Let’s talk about his true intentions.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readDec 1, 2022
Marco Rubio via Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Ah, Marco Rubio.

Remember when he was supposedly going to be the next shiny new star for the Republican Party? The Senator from Florida was the whole package in the eyes of a once less hostile right wing pundit class, and he was supposed to be the one to take the GOP into the future.

Of course that was all before he met Donald Trump and Chris Christie on the debate stage.

But, that doesn’t mean — like virtually every other narcissistic politicians with deep delusions of grandeur and a desire for more power — that Marco Rubio isn’t going to find ways here and there to attempt to regain his relevance. Right now, he’s attempting to use another potential rail worker strike to get back in the conversation.

Juliana Kaplan with Business Insider writes:

“President Joe Biden this week stepped in to avert a railroad workers’ strike and keep rail infrastructure running, even as workers call for a better contract with access to paid sick leave. Now he’s attracted the ire of Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

“The railways & workers should go back & negotiate a deal that the workers, not just the union bosses, will accept,” Rubio tweeted on Tuesday. “But if…

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Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx