Marco Rubio got heckled...
ORLANDO — There was no question who was the favorite among the crop
of possible 2016 Republican White House candidates who wooed
conservative activists at a two-day conference here this weekend.
Loud chants of “Run, Ted, run!” filled a hotel ballroom packed with more than 1,500 people Saturday after Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.)
finished excoriating President Obama’s administration and challenging
Republicans to use an upcoming budget vote to try to force through a
measure to defund the Affordable Care Act.
“How do you win this fight?” he asked, and the audience responded in unison with him: “Don’t blink!”
Cruz
was the last in a series of prominent Republicans who made their
pitches at the “Defending the American Dream” summit sponsored by the
Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a key player in the tea party
movement. He followed Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Texas Gov. Rick Perry and
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, all of whom addressed the organization
Friday.
While the others were warmly received — absent some activists who heckled Rubio over his immigration stance — the reception for Cruz was nothing short of adoring.
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