Major and minor ideological and issue differences separate the 17 major candidates running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, but Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., cast the distinction between himself and his opponents more in generational terms when he visited Chattanooga on Thursday.
Some two decades younger than five of his primary opponents and more than a generation younger than the three top Democrats in most national polls, he told hundreds of supporters at Lindsay Street Hall that his would be the first generation in United States history worse off than their parents “if we keep doing what we’re doing now.”
“We have an opportunity to get off this path,” said Rubio, 44, to a crowd that included scores of Millennials.
The country’s current economic policies are failing the people who could most benefit by them, and should be modernized, he said.
By example, he mentioned the country’s largest retailer, Amazon, has no bricks and mortar store, its largest taxi company, Uber, owns no cars, and its largest accommodations provider, Airbnb, owns no real estate.