patrick murphy speaks on stage at a hillary clinton rally in kendall, fl. | twitter via alex flinn was murphy's first appearance with clinton during campaign by sergio bustos 10/11/16 06:58 pm edt miami <u+2014> democratic senate candidate patrick murphy used a high-profile hillary clinton rally in miami monday to attack his senate rival, sen. marco rubio, by tying him to the republican presidential nominee, saying <u+201c>when donald trump goes low, marco rubio is right there with him.<u+201d> murphy shared a stage with the democratic presidential nominee and former vice president al gore in pledging to combat climate change before a cheering crowd at the kendall campus of miami-dade college. story continued below <u+201c>we are not going to modernize our energy polices with donald trump<u+2019>s racist bullying and marco rubio<u+2019>s silence,<u+201d> said murphy. <u+201c>we<u+2019>re not going to protect our waterways with donald trump<u+2019>s demonizing immigrants and muslims. and we are certainly not going to fight climate change with donald trump<u+2019>s misogynistic attacks. <u+201c>and where does sen. rubio stand?<u+201d> murphy asked rhetorically. <u+201c>when donald trump goes low, marco rubio is right there with him.<u+201d> making his first appearance of the presidential campaign with clinton, murphy called her the <u+201c>the most qualified person we<u+2019>ve ever had<u+201d> seek the office of the presidency. <u+201c>and you compare that to the most unqualified person we<u+2019>ve ever had seek that office,<u+201d> he said sarcastically in referring to trump. murphy praised clinton, saying she will act quickly to combat climate change if elected to the white house. clinton, who has endorsed murphy, gave him a shout out later during her remarks to the mostly young college crowd of supporters. during his six-minute speech before clinton and gore commanded the stage, murphy ticked off a litany of issues he would fight for if elected to the u.s. senate. he said he would protect social security and medicare, fix the <u+201c>broken<u+201d> immigration system and defend <u+201c>a woman<u+2019>s right to choose,<u+201d> along with making college <u+201c>more affordable.<u+201d> but the jupiter congressman spent much of his short speech making blistering attacks against trump and rubio, and their environmental policies. <u+201c>with all that<u+2019>s at stake in this election, with the future of our environment and our country on the line, who are the republicans trying to elect here in florida? donald trump and marco rubio? really? <u+201c>senator rubio stands with donald trump and refuses to protect our environment. and when presented with the overwhelming scientific evidence of the existence of climate change, marco rubio<u+2019>s quote is <u+2018>i<u+2019>m not a scientist.<u+2019><u+201d> murphy said before ridiculing the miami lawmaker. <u+201c>senator, you don<u+2019>t need to be a scientist. look out your window. okay? high tides are flooding the streets on miami beach. yet he still refuses to act." murphy has tried to link rubio to trump with little success so far in the u.s. senate contest. he has struggled to connect with hispanic voters and raise his name recognition against rubio, a well-known and well-funded incumbent who jumped back into the senate race after his gop presidential bid ended in march. nearly two dozen polls show rubio in the driver<u+2019>s seat in leading the u.s. senate race against murphy, even though trump trails clinton in many of those same polls. murphy exhorted the crowd dominated by millennials to get young people to the polls. "like so many of you here i'm millennial," said the 33-year-old murphy. "and it's up to this generation to reverse the trend that we are on." "let's make every phone call, let's knock on every door, let's stuff every envelope, and let's put in every hour it's going to take in november to win," he said before dashing off stage to the sound of loud applause. marc caputo's must-read briefing on what's hot, crazy or shady about politics in the sunshine state.
murphy teams up with clinton, gore to talk climate change, fires attacks at rubio, trump
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