Rubio Touts Vocational Ed During Wisconsin Visit

Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio made appearances in the Milwaukee area Monday, taking part in two fundraisers and speaking at a rally.

The Republican presidential candidate told a few hundred people in Pewaukee that he supports more young people going into technical education.

“A welder makes a lot more than a philosopher,” Rubio said. “I want to be the vocational education president, not someone that celebrates these jobs, and helps the private sector create them, but someone that actually makes it easier for people to go into those fields, someone that says, ‘Let’s open up Pell Grant.’”

Rubio also called for more competition for four-year universities, and for strengthening the United States military.

Rubio is in Wisconsin ahead of Tuesday night’s GOP presidential candidate debate in Milwaukee. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was in Waukesha Monday afternoon.