Can Marco Rubio win back the Republican base?

After falling from grace over immigration, the senator is threatening to shut down the government

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Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) is on a mission to convince Republican voters that, despite his full-throated embrace of immigration reform, he's still a diehard conservative.

On Monday, Rubio kicked off a short tour around Florida to tout his support for a Republican-led effort to shut down the government if Congress does not repeal ObamaCare. A handful of conservative, Tea Party-aligned senators — including Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Mike Lee (Utah) — have urged their caucus to block a continuing resolution to fund the government to stop ObamaCare from going into effect and to pressure Obama to scrap the law entirely.

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.