Claim: Adam Hasner Says George LeMieux "even compared Marco Rubio to Barack Obama.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: George LeMieux
text: S&P." LeMieux was involved in the high-profile blockage of President Barack Obama's nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Thomas Shannon, who was eventually confirmed. During his time in the Senate, LeMieux was recognized for his record on pro-business and tax reform. He has received several awards including a 93% rating from the National Taxpayer Union and the "Spirit of Enterprise" award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. On April 15, 2011, LeMieux announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat held by Bill Nelson. While running for the seat, LeMieux campaigned on a platform of fiscal responsibility until announcing

title: George LeMieux
text: George LeMieux George Stephen LeMieux (; born May 21, 1969) is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Florida from 2009 to 2011. He is chairman of the Florida-based law firm of Gunster Yoakley & Stewart and was chief of staff to Governor Charlie Crist. He was the Deputy Florida Attorney General and is credited with spearheading Crist's successful campaign for governor. On August 28, 2009, Crist announced he would appoint LeMieux as U.S. Senator to replace Mel Martínez, who weeks earlier had announced he would resign as soon as Crist announced his successor. On April 5,

title: George LeMieux
text: Magazine", and 20 People on the Fast Track by "Fast Track Magazine". LeMieux received the "Pollie" award from the American Association of Political Consultants as the nation's "MVP" in a Republican campaign for 2006. LeMieux served as the Executive Director of the Crist/Kottkamp transition team, and went on to lead the Executive Office of the Governor as the Governor's Chief of Staff in 2007. He married on October 28, 2000; he and his wife have three sons named Max, Taylor and Chase as well as one daughter named Madeleine. George LeMieux George Stephen LeMieux (; born May 21, 1969) is

title: Marco Rubio 2016 presidential campaign
text: an average of 16%. This placed him in second place, behind Trump. At the New Hampshire debate on February 6, 2016, Rubio was criticized by Christie for repeating memorized speeches, to which Rubio replied by repeating four times a statement to the effect that President Obama was destroying America. Rubio defended these remarks the following day, saying with respect to the statement that Obama "knows exactly what he's doing" that "It's what I believe and it's what I'm going to continue to say, because it happens to be one of the main reasons why I am running." Rubio came in

title: Marco Antonio Rubio
text: in his hometown against the Mexican veteran. During the first five rounds Lemieux dominated Rubio by landing hard power punches. But Rubio refused to quit and wouldn't go down. Rubio came back in round six and started to land harder punches that slowed down Lemieux. In the seventh round Rubio knocked down Lemieux. Lemieux got up, but Rubio continued where he left off and threw more punches at him. With only seconds left in round seven, Lemieux's corner threw in the towel to a stop the fight. Since he won the Lemieux fight, Rubio placed himself into a mandatory position

title: Marco Rubio
text: second among potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates in an online poll of likely voters conducted by Zogby Analytics in January 2015. In January 2015, it was reported that Rubio had begun contacting top donors and appointing advisors for a potential 2016 run, including George Seay, who previously worked on such campaigns as Rick Perry's in 2012 and Mitt Romney's in 2008, and Jim Rubright, who had previously worked for Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain. Rubio also instructed his aides to "prepare for a presidential campaign" prior to a Team Marco 2016 fundraising meeting in South Beach. On April

title: Marco Rubio
text: an adjunct professor at FIU, he agreed to raise most of the funding for his position from private sources. On May 5, 2009, Rubio announced on his website that he planned to run for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martínez, who had announced that he would not seek reelection. Martinez subsequently announced (in August 2009) that he would resign before completing his term, and upon his resignation was replaced by George LeMieux. Prior to making his May 5, 2009 announcement, Rubio had been meeting with fundraisers and supporters throughout the state. Initially trailing by double-digits in

title: Marco Rubio 2016 presidential campaign
text: With Walker out of the race, Rubio was widely viewed as the next likeliest candidate who best matched this criteria. The Rubio campaign was even reported as hiring up to nine of Walker's former top staffers less than 24 hours after his exit. Matt Lewis has commented that, "Democrats should fear Marco Rubio", who Lewis saw as "heralding a generational shift" for Republicans. Rubio, along with Paul Ryan and his recent ascension to the House Speakership, Lewis says, means "both men will be attacked for their youth and energy", adding: "But it’s hard to look at this strong and diverse

title: Marco Rubio 2016 presidential campaign
text: "the perfect antithesis" to Hillary Clinton. Krauthammer draws an analogy with John Kennedy's presidential campaign: "When Kennedy ran in 1960, Nixon was about his age, but he basically ran against Eisenhower. He talked about the new and the new frontier... Remember what he said in his inaugural address? ...Kennedy said 'the torch has been passed to a new generation'. I think the generational contrast is huge. I think the baggage contrast is huge." The November 2015 Paris attacks were widely seen as altering the narrative of the 2016 presidential primaries, and in particular gave a boost to Rubio for his

title: Marco Rubio 2016 presidential campaign
text: an ad claiming that Rubio had both missed a classified meeting the previous month after the Paris attacks and "missed more total votes than any other senator". On January 7, Rubio defended his record by arguing that votes were "precooked" and votes were used to "make a statement." Rubio participated in the January 28 Fox News debate, charging Cruz with building his campaign on "the lie" stemming from his stance on immigration and insisting in Jeb Bush's book "" that the latter changed his "position on immigration". January 29, during an interview the following day, Rubio was confident about his

title: George LeMieux
text: 2011, LeMieux formally announced that he would run against incumbent Democratic Senator Bill Nelson in 2012, but dropped out of the race in June 2012. LeMieux was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the son of Karen Ann (née Huckestein) and George Harvey LeMieux, a building contractor and secretary to the company. He grew up in Coral Springs, Florida, and graduated in 1987 from Coral Springs High School. He enrolled at Emory University, where he majored in political science, served as Chapter President of the Beta Epsilon Chapter of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and graduated "magna cum laude", Phi Beta Kappa

title: George LeMieux
text: also for deciding that Crist would not accompany President Bush on the day before the election. When asked why Crist was not attending the President's visit to Florida, Karl Rove responded ""just ask George LeMieux"". He also advised Crist regarding the selection of running mate Jeff Kottkamp. Crist defeated Davis and was inaugurated Governor of Florida on January 2, 2007. While in public service, LeMieux managed more than 400 lawyers as Deputy Attorney General, led compact negotiations with the Seminole Tribe of Florida as Chief of Staff to the Governor, and supervised all aspects of the Executive Office of the

title: LaRouche movement
text: He has also called the movement a "cult of personality". In rebuttal, LaRouche called the accusations of being a cult figure "garbage", and denied having control over any of the groups affiliated with him. According to longtime critics Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons: In the summer of 2009, LaRouche followers came under criticism from both Democrats and Republicans for comparing President Barack Obama to Hitler. Media figures as politically diverse as Rush Limbaugh and Jon Stewart criticized the comparison. According to "The Washington Post", LaRouche has told his followers that they are "golden souls", a term from "The Republic"

title: Dick Morris
text: July 2012, he stated that he believed that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would pick Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his running mate; insisting "It's the only choice that makes sense," going as far as to state, "I believe Mitt Romney has known for six months that he's going to pick Marco Rubio." Romney would end up choosing Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate. In August 2012 Morris claimed that Bill Clinton was going to vote for Mitt Romney, but that he would still speak in favor of Obama because "his wife is hostage." In October 2012, Morris

title: Marco Rubio 2016 presidential campaign
text: Republican bench, and not juxtapose it to the Democrats, whose party – now that Barack Obama is a lame duck – seems to be represented by a bunch of old white people, such as Hillary Clinton, 68, Bernie Sanders, the 74-year-old democratic socialist candidate, ...Nancy Pelosi, 75, and Harry Reid, 75... For Democrats, who were hoping they would get to deal with old pols like John Boehner and Jeb Bush...the world just got a little bit scarier". Journalist and author Charles Krauthammer has also referred to Rubio as the candidate the Democrats "fear the most", and has described him as

title: Marco Rubio 2016 presidential campaign
text: potential 2016 candidates, from such sources as Public Policy Polling, Harper Polling, Quinnipiac University, and Farleigh Dickinson University. In statewide polls, he has performed most prominently in his home state of Florida, alongside Jeb Bush, and has also performed fairly well in Suffolk University polls in such states as Colorado, Michigan, and Minnesota. A poll from the WMUR/University, tracking New Hampshire Republican primary voters' sentiment, showed Rubio at the top alongside Kentucky senator Rand Paul in March 2013. However, he had dropped to 10th place behind other Republican contenders by April 2014. The poll, however, also suggested that Rubio was

title: Andrew Scheer
text: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, having also been critical of Trudeau's late father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Scheer considered former Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and British MEP Daniel Hannan as political influences. Scheer described U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio as "strong conservative voices" during the 2016 Manning Center Conference. Unlike other candidates, Scheer's leadership team was focused less on headlines or eye-grabbing policy and more on data and organizing. During the Conservative leadership race, Scheer stated that he would balance the federal budget within two years of forming government. Scheer says he wants to make maternity and

title: Political positions of Marco Rubio
text: Political positions of Marco Rubio Marco Rubio is a Republican politician in the United States. He is a United States Senator from Florida, and was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in the 2016 election. Rubio supports balancing the federal budget, while prioritizing defense spending; on climate change, he believes it is real and humans are contributing to it, but questions the extent to which humans are responsible for it and he asserts that other nations like China are primarily responsible; on Obamacare, he wants to repeal it and replace it with tax credits

title: Marco Rubio
text: in the first three months of 2014, most of which was spent on consultants and data analytics, in what was seen as preparations for a presidential campaign. A poll from the WMUR/University, tracking New Hampshire Republican primary voters' sentiment, showed Rubio at the top alongside Kentucky senator Rand Paul later in 2013, but as of April 18, 2014, he had dropped to 10th place behind other Republican contenders. The poll, however, also suggested that Rubio was not disliked by the primary voters, which was thought to be positive for him if other candidates had chosen not to run. Rubio placed

title: Jon Favreau (speechwriter)
text: Favreau, and the Chicago White Sox, favored by Obama. When the White Sox defeated the Red Sox 3–0 in the 2005 American League playoffs, Obama swept off Favreau's desk with a small broom. During the campaigns, he was obsessed with election tracking polls, jokingly referring to them as his "daily crack." At points during the campaign, he was said to feel overwhelmed by his responsibilities, and would turn to David Axelrod, and his friends for advice. Favreau has declared that the speeches of Robert Kennedy and Michael Gerson have influenced his work, and has expressed admiration for Peggy Noonan's speechwriting,