Watch: Presidential hopeful Rubio throws football to Iowa kid who gets hit in head, falls
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Mar. 4, 2020 1:54 p.m. ET
Brett Smiley
Junior Senator from Florida and presidential hopeful Marco Rubio was throwing footballs to a line of kids at the Iowa State Fair on Tuesday when one youngster ran a fly route and this happened:
.@marcorubio goes long in Iowa... and... d'oh. Don't worry, the kid's okay! http://t.co/Ly9sThFm0T https://t.co/6NtUT5Eqhk
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) August 18, 2015
Marco Rubio hitting the kid in the face with the football is even better as a GIF pic.twitter.com/FLpnHz0un0
— Mudacris (@moody) August 18, 2015
Maybe he overestimated the kid's speed a little bit, but it's hard to pin that KO on Rubio.
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But it's probably not exactly how Rubio's campaign manager envisioned the effort to humanize the GOP candidate and a show he's a sportsman.
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