Subject: Marco Rubio Still Doesn’t See Discrimination Against Muslims in US
From: DNC Press <[email-masked]>
To: DNC Press <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:32:41 +0000

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Just a day after Donald Trump said he wants to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, Marco Rubio once again claimed that there is no evidence of discrimination against Muslims in America.

LISTEN HERE<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17dSkvk3NkU&feature=youtu.be>

For six months, the Republican Party has been willing to embrace Donald Trump’s racist, xenophobic, and extreme rhetoric. The RNC has caved to his debate demands<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/cnbc-gop-debate-donald-trump-demands-214875>, tapped him for fundraisers<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/donald-trump-rnc-fundraising-215164>, instructed GOP Senate candidates to imitate him<http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/125355/nrscs-advice-gop-be-more-like-trump?mref=recommended>, and even called him a “net positive for everybody<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zWIpYkn4aM>.” But now other presidential candidates like Marco Rubio are ignoring the vile hate coming from Trump’s mouth.

In fact the Republican field of presidential candidates has spent weeks sowing fear and attempting to marginalize the Muslim community for political gain. Rubio himself has gone so far to say that we should consider closing down Mosques<http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/11/20/3724509/rubio-trump-shut-down-mosques/> and cafes where Muslim Americans like to gather. That sort of rhetoric alienates Muslim communities in the U.S. and abroad, who are often on the front lines of our fight against ISIL/Daesh, making it harder to prosecute the war on terror.

“Marco Rubio must be living on a different planet. When he looks at his party’s frontrunner and claims that what he is saying isn’t discrimination, Rubio is endorsing the vile hate spewing from Donald Trump’s mouth. When you endorse discriminating against an entire religious community in the United States, you are unfit to be president.” – Christina Freundlich, DNC spokeswomen

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