“Those are issues that in my mind are going to be discussed by others in this campaign. They want to raise them, they can raise them,” the Florida senator told The Daily Caller in a phone interview Saturday. “That’s not what my campaign is focused on.”

“I’m not offended by it,” Rubio explained. “It’s true, it’s on the record and I think it exposes a tremendous amount of hypocrisy in the mainstream media. I believe had that been a figure on the Right, the mainstream media would be giving extensive coverage to it.”

“But,” he said, “I, in my campaign, am going to focus on the issues that our confronting our country and the damage Barack Obama has done and how we are going to reverse them.”