Iowa – Amateur video of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio playfully tossing a football while visiting Iowa Monday is going viral, not for its Kennedy-esque quality.
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Instead, the Republican presidential candidate lays out a wobbly pass to a boy, while visiting a family in a Des Moines suburb.
The boy’s arms extend too far, as he runs for the ball which squarely bounces off the skyward facing receiver’s face.
Rubio is seen moving toward the child and offering a concerned, “Oh,” in the video lasting less than five seconds.
What is unclear from the video is whether the boy ran the wrong pattern, or if Rubio’s pass was off the mark.
However, it appeared from the short clip that the boy sustained no career-ending injuries.
On-and-off downpours dampened Rubio’s return to Iowa after about a month away from the lead-off caucus state.
Rubio thanked a huddled, umbrella-covered audience for “braving the rain” at the fair’s Political Soapbox, a regular attraction sponsored by The Des Moines Register.
The Florida senator has lost ground in national polls since billionaire Donald Trump entered the race in June. Rubio attributes his slip in national polls and recent absence from Iowa and lead-off primary state New Hampshire to duties in the Senate, fundraising and visiting other states.
“We love coming to this state. We were here last night,” Rubio said, describing his evening of midway rides and a funnel cake with his wife and children at the fair.
Pledging to try to win in Iowa, Rubio told reporters, “We look forward to coming back quite often, especially as we get closer to the caucuses,” scheduled for Feb. 1.
This is news? The media is in a sorry state.
A presidential candidate who cannot even throw a football and assaults a young child will go nowhere.
it’s better news than Obama playing golf using taxpayers money