Unlike his fellow Republican senator Rand Paul, Marco Rubio says he has no backup plan to running for president because he plans to be the party nominee.
"I'm running for president of the United States and that's what my campaign is about," Rubio said Monday on
Fox News Channel's "Hannity" after announcing his candidacy earlier in the day.
"I don't have a Plan B to pivot back to the Senate race. I intend to be the nominee," Rubio said.
That's likely a swipe at Paul, who is running for the GOP presidential nomination but is running concurrently for re-election to his Kentucky Senate seat.
In a wide-ranging interview, Rubio also talked about President Barack Obama's recent trip to the Summit of the Americas, where Cuban President Raul Castro criticized the United States as an "occupying force" to his country.
"Well, the person who's been oppressing the people of Cuba is Fidel Castro and now his brother Raul," said Rubio, whose own parents are refugees of the Castro regime.
"I wish we would have had a president attending there that would have reminded him and the world of the regime," he said. "It's a country that enslaves 13 million people, no opportunities, no future, no political freedom.
"It's a country that helped North Korea evade United Nations sanctions, gives safe harbor to fugitives, including a woman who killed a police officer, including people who stole millions of dollars from the taxpayers of the United States, exiles 2 million people to the United States and around the world.
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