Marco Rubio Nukes His Credibility

Florida senator Marco Rubio said in an interview Tuesday that he intends to support Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the November election despite the fact that he still believes Trump should not have access to the United States' nuclear weapons launch codes.

"I signed a pledge that said I'd support the Republican nominee and I intend to continue to do that," Rubio told CNN's Jake Tapper. But, Tapper asked, what about Rubio's statement that we shouldn't hand the nuclear codes of the United States to an erratic con man?

Rubio said that he stands by his remarks but still intends to back Trump anyway as the GOP nominee.

"I know what I said during the campaign. I have enunciated those things repeatedly, and voters chose a different direction. I stand by the things that I said," Rubio told Tapper. "But I'm not going to sit here now and become his chief critic over the next six months."

Pressed again about how he could reconcile his support for Trump with his remarks that Trump shouldn't get access to the nuclear codes, Rubio said that Republican voters had spoken. "That said, it doesn't change what I said in the past. I stand by those things," Rubio added. "But now he is the presumptive nominee. I don't want Hillary Clinton to win."