Throughout the election cycle, the bulwark of Rubio’s campaign has been Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News network. Conservative commentators, as well as other GOPcandidates, have observed that Fox has given Rubio an overwhelming amount of free positive promotion—allowing the candidate to remain in contention for the nomination despite his dismal third, fifth, and second place showings in the first three primary states.
The extent to which Fox News may be willing to bias its coverage in favor of Rubio will perhaps be tested based on whether or not the network chooses to cover the Crane scandal — and in what level of detail it chooses to do so.
If Fox News does not cover the Crane scandal in depth—i.e. examining Rubio’s record on immigration, his lack of coordination with ICE officers, the provisions of his immigration bill as it related to criminal aliens, as well as the backroom deals that were cut with corporations and special interests groups—then questions will necessarily be asked about Rupert Murdoch’s lobbying efforts—and whether Murdoch’s conflict of interests, which has gone undisclosed thus far, has affected the network’s coverage.
For instance, it was CNN—not FOX—which recently published a story documenting concerns about how a former Rubio’s staffer potentially enriched his corporate clients through backroom deals in the Gang of Eight legislation.
Immediately following Rubio’s implicit attack of Chris Crane, prominent sheriffs from around the country—such as Sheriff Paul Babeu of Arizona, Sheriff Tom Hodgson of Massachusetts, and Sheriff Sam Page of North Carolina— vocally backed Crane against Rubio.
Rubio now seems to be in the uncomfortable position of having to either retract his statement and apologize to Chris Crane, or broadening his fight to include not only ICE officers, but America’s sheriffs as well.
“Historically, I don’t think attacking law enforcement has been a path to the Republican nomination,” Trump’s senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said in a deliberate understatement of the road that lies ahead of Sen. Rubio now that t
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