No matter who ends up being confirmed for the presidency, President Donald Trump will remain a "popular and dominant voice" for the Republican Party and the people he brought into the party shouldn't be disregarded if he's no longer in office, Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday.
''The message that he has been hitting on for four years and the message that we’ve been working on as well is that we are on the side of hard-working everyday Americans who simply want to have an economy," the Florida Republican told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "They don’t want to be told, for example, that sorry, your job is going to China because it’s how the free market works. We’re for the free market, not socialism.''
He stressed that it's clear that Trump's dominance will continue, as more than 70 million people voted for him.
"Where I live in South Florida, he went from a 30-point loss in 2016 to only seven in a county that’s overwhelmingly Democrat," said Rubio. "He’s converted a bunch of people who never voted before or used to vote Democrat who are now Republican or vote for Republicans."
Further, Trump's message and issues that he focused on in the past four years will continue to live on, said Rubio, and will be important to continue to address.
"That was going to be true now or four years from now," the senator said.
Rubio also predicted that the influence of the Republican Party will continue to grow among the working class, because "90 percent or an overwhelming percentage of Americans would agree [that] we need to have an economy that creates good jobs with dignity for as many Americans as you possibly can."
"People want to live in safe neighborhoods," he said. "If a police officer does something wrong, they’re not above the law, but by and large the police do great things for our country. They want to fund the police department, they don't want to turn over our cities to rioters."
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