Marco Rubio Slammed For Mocking Eva Longoria After Clint Eastwood’s Chair Speech

Marco Rubio is under fire after he shared a comment mocking a video of actress Eva Longoria speaking to viewers at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night.

On Twitter, Rubio appeared to poke fun at Longoria, who served as a moderator at the convention. During her speech, the actress stated the upcoming presidential election is a “chance to save our country.”

“Brilliant move! No one is more in touch with the challenges & obstacles faced by everyday Americans than actors & celebrities,” the U.S. senator for Florida tweeted in response.

By Tuesday, Rubio’s name was trending on Twitter as voters reminded him that he spoke alongside a celebrity at the Republican National Convention in 2012. Rubio’s appearance came right after actor Clint Eastwood took the stage to deliver his infamous speech in which he spent several moments talking to an empty chair.

“You literally spoke directly after Clint Eastwood at the 2012 RNC,” Jesse Lehrich, Hillary Clinton’s former Foreign Policy spokesperson, wrote in response to Rubio’s tweet.

Another person added, “Clint Eastwood spent many minutes yelling at a chair on an RNC stage in 2012. You literally spoke right after him. Sit down and shut up cowardly hypocritical fraud.”

Meanwhile, one user criticized Rubio for mocking celebrities even though President Donald Trump was a reality star before securing the U.S. presidency.

“Lol...and politicians are more in touch? Let’s all take a moment to remember the debacle of Clint Eastwood talking to a chair at the Republican convention!!” the individual wrote. “P.S. Trump was a reality TV host with no qualifications to run this country. Do you think people are stupid?”

This is far from the first time Rubio has lashed out against Democrats. On Monday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that the former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives blamed the party for delaying the new stimulus deal, which would provide additional relief to those financially affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

“We want to make a deal. We tried to make a deal,” he said.

“They’ve [the Democrats have] made the calculation that no deal means that the country will suffer damage and people will be hurt and the more people are damaged, the more people are hurt, the angrier they’ll be and that they’ll take it out on Donald Trump during the election. I think that’s the calculus that they’ve made, that they politically benefit from no deal, and you’ve seen that in the posture that they’ve taken.”