just fyi, the way this works  > marco rubio goes to his favorite journalist  > lies to them and says he is being considered for secretary of state > this gets published in a major newspaper and repeated in multiple other publications  > people comment on these articles > this information and opinions travel back to the trump campaign, and aides in trump's camp now start openly discussing rubio as secretary of state  > trump does a press conference and someone asks trump if he is considering rubio > now he has to answer this in a way that doesn't immediately piss off little marco in short, this is just another form of lobbying. it's not genuine reporting.
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