On Thursday, Marco Rubio took to the airwaves to call his fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump "touchy and insecure," one day after Trump said he was a "lightweight" without much foreign policy experience.
During an interview on Kentucky Sports Radio, the Florida senator said Trump did poorly during the Republican debate last week, and is "not well informed on the issues. He really never talks about issues and can't have more than a 10-second soundbite on any key issue. I think he's kind of been exposed a little bit over the last seven days and he's a touchy and insecure guy. So that's how he reacts and people can see through it."
Later, Rubio appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, where he questioned if Trump has enough "depth" to handle the major issues he would face as president. "He can't have a conversation about policy because, quite frankly, he doesn't know anything about policy," he said. "[His] foreign policy apparently is a secret he can't tell us because he doesn't want to reveal it to the enemy."
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