Trump hits Rubio: ‘He’s a kid’

Businessman Donald Trump hit fellow Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Thursday morning, describing the freshman Florida senator as “a kid.”

{mosads}”He’s got the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He’s never there, meaning he doesn’t work or he’s too lazy to go back and vote,” Trump said on CNN’s “New Day.”

Trump, 69, dismissed the foreign policy credentials of Rubio, 44, who sits on both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee, saying Rubio only reads reports.

“I know more about Syria than Marco Rubio knows about Syria,” Trump said, apparently invoking his business experience as a real estate tycoon.

“Marco Rubio … he’s like a kid. He shouldn’t even be running in this race as far as I’m concerned. He’s a kid,” Trump added on CNN.

The broadside comes a week after the second main-stage GOP debate and after Rubio, who has largely steered clear of attacking the monthslong front-runner, questioned the business mogul’s readiness to be president.

“I think the most important thing a president will ever do is provide for the national security of our country and I think up until now he hasn’t really answered serious questions about national security, and until he does there should be concerns,” Rubio said Tuesday on Fox News.

“Until he does, there should be serious concerns, not just about him but about any candidate that’s not able to speak in detail, with clarity and with seriousness, about the national security threats that we face,” Rubio added.

Trump initially pushed back during a Wednesday speech in South Carolina, where he hit Rubio for missing Senate votes and taking a swipe at his hair. He amplified that attack Thursday.

“Marco Rubio wants to tell every single thing that he knows to everybody so that people on the other side know that the enemy can learn all about,” Trump said on CNN. “I want to be unpredictable.”

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