Marco Rubio explains Trump's bizarre stories aren't anything new — so people won't care

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is firmly behind former President Donald Trump, and he's dismissing any comments from the Tuesday night debate as nothing new.

"I don't think voters last night heard anything they hadn't seen before," Rubio said.

Raw Story noted that most Americans likely haven't heard about the right-wing dog eating conspiracy that Trump promoted during the debate, in which he falsely claimed Haitian migrants are kidnapping people's pets and eating them.

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"But, generally speaking," Rubio explained away. "I mean I don't think they saw or heard anything that they wouldn't see some similarity of in the past on another issue."

What was new for Americans, according to Rubio, is more insights into Vice President Kamala Harris and what she supports.

He complained that Harris has been in the White House for four years and hasn't done the very things she proposed. Harris has promoted the long list of accomplishments by President Joe Biden's administration and talking about her next steps.

When asked about his plan, specifically on replacing the Affordable Care Act, a promise Trump has made for eight years, he said he has the "concepts of a plan."

Raw Story asked about Trump going back to pushing the 2020 election lie that he won, an issue where he recently said the opposite, admitting he "lost by a whisker." When asked about it last night, Trump claimed he was being "sarcastic." ABC News moderator David Muir responded that he had heard the video and didn't hear a joke or sarcasm.

But to Rubio, the so-called "Big Lie" is something Trump has "been saying for a long time," he explained. "It's not new."