Marco Rubio Dubbed 'Great Disappointment' by Senate Democrats

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Some Democratic senators regret putting any faith in Marco Rubio.
During a Sunday, March 2, appearance on CNN's State of the Union with Dana Bash, Chris Murphy of Connecticut admitted he wished he hadn't voted to confirm the Republican as President Donald Trump's Secretary of State after he backed up the commander-in-chief's takedown of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
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"You voted to approve his nomination to be secretary of state," Bash said to Murphy. "You still think you made the right choice?"
"It was a mistake. I think a lot of us thought that Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Donald Trump on an issue like this," he explained, adding what a "great disappointment" the Florida native has become.

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During his confirmation in January, Rubio shockingly gained support from the left after Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois embraced his nomination. However, that all seems to have gone out the window in recent weeks.
During an interview with Fox News Sunday, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland (pictured) revealed, "I regret that vote. As a member of the Senate, Secretary Rubio was somebody who stood up for American values, American principles."

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Despite the backlash, Rubio doubled down on the support for his boss after he kicked the Ukrainian president out of the White House last week as he attempts to get Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a peace deal.
"Shouldn't we at least try to see if there is a way to end this war in a way that's acceptable to both sides and is enduring and sustainable? How is that a bad thing?" the 53-year-old said during an appearance on ABC News' This Week on Sunday, March 2.

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"I really am puzzled why anyone thinks that trying to be a peacemaker is a bad thing. It's only a bad thing when it's Donald Trump trying to do it. When it's President Trump. It's absurd to me," he added.
Many called out Rubio for lack of consistency when it comes to Putin. Journalist Aaron Rupar wrote in a social media post, "Rubio once called Putin a butcher. Now, as Trump's Secretary of State, he won't even say if Putin is evil. What a shift." 

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"Rubio now believes speaking with moral clarity is an obstacle to diplomacy. What happened to the guy who used to be a foreign policy hawk?" political analyst Tom Nichols claimed.
Conservative influencer Brigitte Gabriel defended the Trump staffer's stance. "Marco Rubio is doing what a real secretary of state should do: working to bring peace, not pushing neocon war narratives," she wrote in a social media update.