I followed Marco Rubio around yesterday, and chasing him around, seemingly saw just about all of the 15,000 journalists at the convention, trying to get him to answer a question or two. From my piece today:

For Rubio, the convention speech is part of a larger mission: getting the conservative message out to a wide audience. He is working to achieve that by speaking to media outlets whose viewers span the ideological spectrum. This week alone, Rubio has appeared on BET, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Show, MSNBC, Univision, Telemundo, PBS, and CNBC. He has talked about immigration and the GOP with the New York Times, and about Medicare with MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell. In a media session, Rubio took multiple questions from Spanish-language reporters, answering them in unhesitating Spanish.
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For Rubio, star power is real. As he did a whirlwind series of interviews around the convention floor on Wednesday, the senator couldn’t walk more than a few feet without being grabbed by another reporter. When he held a media availability after his stage walk-through, dozens of reporters crowded around him, forming the kind of packed media scrum that is more typical for presidential candidates than for senators. “How do I pick?” Rubio asked, smiling, as several reporters simultaneously shouted questions at him.

Read it here.