Confronted on CNN by chilling comments made by the architect behind the authoritarian Project 2025 hinting at bloodshed if Donald Trump is not re-elected, the best Sen. Marco Rubio could come up with was, "Think tanks do think tanks stuff."
The Florida Republican was put on the spot on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday when host Dana Bash played a clip of Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts telling a Real America News host, "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless ― if the left allows it to be."
With Project 2025 stocked with multiple former Donald Trump aides, Bash pressed Rubio, who is in the running to be Trump's running mate, with, "Are you comfortable with that?"
"Well, he's not running for president is he?' Rubio attempted "I mean our candidate is Donald Trump. I didn't hear Donald Trump say that. Donald Trump's running on common sense, on restoring common sense versus the lunacy of the last four years and the far left and the shadow government that now is running our country. "
"Think tanks do think tank stuff, they come up with ideas, they say things," he continued. "Look, I like Heritage Foundation. I agree with some of the things they stand for, but there's a bunch of scholars and people to turn around and work on different projects, but our candidate for president is Donald Trump and Donald Trump is running on restoring common sense, working-class values and making decisions on the basis of that, not an ideological lunacy, which is what we've seen over the last four years."
"Is that what Project 2025 is? An ideological lunacy?" Bash retorted.
"No, I think it's the work of a think tank of center-right think tank and that's what think tanks do.," Rubio demurred.
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