Watch: Marco Rubio Just Broke His Silence to Drop a Nomination Bomb That Could Change the Game

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio sat down with talk show host Mark Levin for his first in depth interview since suspending his campaign for the presidency last month.

During the interview on LevinTV, which aired on Tuesday night, Rubio more-or-less endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz. “I’ve been pretty clear that I want the Republican nominee to be a conservative, and in my view at this moment, of the candidates that are still actively campaigning, the only one that fits that criteria is Ted Cruz. I’ve said that publicly” . . .

The Florida senator said regarding the 171 delegates that he won during the primaries, “they’re bound on the first ballot, and I want to make sure that they’re there on the first ballot,” adding, “After that, as you know, these delegates, many of them, will be free to vote for another candidate, and I hope that they’ll nominate a conservative.”

“I think the Republican Party has to be the home of the conservative movement. If not, it loses its reason to exist, as an organization,” he said.

Rubio’s and Cruz’s conservative credentials are not in question. Rubio scores a 94 percent conservative rating on the Heritage Action Scorecard (the political arm of the Heritage Foundation) for his votes as senator, and a 96 percent with the American Conservative Union’s (the sponsor of CPAC). Cruz scores 100 percent with both. The average rating for Republican senators with Heritage Action is 60 percent. (Read more from “Marco Rubio Just Broke His Silence to Drop a Nomination Bomb That Could Change the Game” HERE)

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