NEW YORK – Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, pressed to identify media figures that he said expressed “glee” at Americans getting coronavirus, has cited an editorial cartoonist, a magazine writer, an online tech publication and an online editor.
The Republican senator took heat for a tweet over the weekend that said some media members “can't contain their delight” at reports that the United States had surpassed China in the number of coronavirus cases.
He was criticized for using the vague term “some in the media,” and ABC News' Jonathan Karl, president of the White House Correspondents Association, called on Rubio to apologize.