For a mere $250, you can adopt a Marco Rubio staffer for the day

In case you're hurting for reasons to donate to the Marco Rubio presidential campaign, he's got you covered with some weirdly specific options. Worried the Florida senator can't afford a plane ticket? Toss $500 his way.

If that's too big an ask, no worries. A $250 donation would allow you to "adopt a staffer" for the day in an early voting state. It really just gets you some social media recognition and a dinky postcard, but leave it to The Daily Beast to jokingly imagine how the adoptions would actually play out:

"So if a staffer is adopted by someone more fun than Marco Rubio, he or she may be too distracted by having a good time to complete menial campaign tasks," Olivia Nuzzi wrote Monday. "And if a staffer is adopted by a rival campaign, they could be forced into compromising situations or criminal activities, which would result in negative attention for Rubio."

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Rubio is also using his campaign store as yet another way of milking his infamous water bottle incident.