Marco Rubio’s daughter steals show at his first post-midterm speech: ‘I don’t know where she got this!’

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“I don’t know where she got this,” Rubio said of his daughter’s public speaking skills. “There’s no stage fright. She’s not afraid to speak. I don’t really like public speak…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio beamed with pride Friday after his daughter Daniella introduced him before a major post-election speech.

“Was that cool or what?” Rubio gushed after his daughter’s remarks at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention.

“I don’t know where she got this,” he marveled. “There’s no stage fright. She’s not afraid to speak. I don’t really like public speaking that much, but she, on the other hand – that’s fantastic.”

Daniella, a third-year law student at the University of Virginia, is Rubio’s youngest daughter. He has four children, two boys and two girls, with his wife Jeanette.

When asked by another law student in the crowd how Americans can “instill the values to the next generation of love for our freedom” as he has with his Daniella, Rubio quipped: “Well, my home was not a democracy.”

The secretary of state was also quick to note that he was “not the dictator” of the family, but rather, “the minister of defense.”

Rubio’s speech, his first since Republicans were wiped out by a Democratic blue wave in last week’s midterm elections, struck an optimistic tone.

He reminded the conservative audience about the “devastating losses” Republicans suffered in the 1982 midterm elections under former President Ronald Reagan.

“Less than two years into Ronald Reagan’s first term in office, everything sort of seemed headed in the wrong direction,” Rubio said. “It’s hard for us to remember that right now, but that’s what it was like.”

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