On Saturday night, Hillary Clinton reminded Democrats that she’s a product of the 1960s. By Sunday night, Marco Rubio turned that line into a campaign slogan against her.
With that in mind, Rubio’s campaign released a new ad Sunday panning Clinton’s comment from Saturday night’s debate in their continued effort to turn the race into “a generational choice.”
In the beginning of the 45-second web-only spot titled “This election is a generational choice,” Rubio’s team repeats that argument before showing the clip of Clinton’s remark in the debate in which she tells CBS’s John Dickerson that “I come from the 60s.”
Clinton’s remark is followed up by a nearly 35 second answer from the Florida senator in the first GOP debate, in which he argues that the 2016 election “better be about the future, not the past,” a clear shot at Clinton, who will be 69 on inauguration day in January, 2017.
“This election better be about the future, not the past. It better be about the issues our nation and the world is facing today, not some of the issues we once faced,” Rubio said. “This country is facing an economy that has been radically transformed.”
“If I’m our nominee, how is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck,” Rubio said. “How is she going to lecture me about student loans? I owed over $100,000 just four years ago. If I’m our nominee, we will be the party of the future.”
