Presumably, we are just days away from a Michelle Obama endorsment of Marco Rubio. In 2013, the First Lady put her weight behind a national hydration campaign:
The First Lady wants you to drink more water.
On a call announcing Michelle Obama’s newest healthy living initiative Wednesday, Let’s Move Executive Director Sam Kass explained that the White House is working with cities, private companies and public taps to promote the message to “drink up.”
Participating companies include Brita, Poland Spring, Evian, Dasani, Voss and others, which will carry a “Drink Up” logo on their bottles, and participating cities include Chicago, Los Angeles county, Houston and, appropriately, Watertown, Wis., where the First Lady is visiting Thursday to kick off the initiative.
“Every participating company is only focusing on drinking water,” Kass said, and not on why its particular brand of water is “better” than another.
Guess who is drinking up? That’s right: Marco Rubio. In an 1800-word deep-dive piece, published yesterday, Politico examines just how much Rubio loves water:
The 44-year-old senator takes care to ensure the availability of water at his public events and can be particular about how he takes it. His advance team has mandated exact requirements for the vessels he will drink out of: stemless glasses—not stemmed ones or water bottles. He reaches for it constantly during public remarks. Its absence has thrown off his delivery, and he and his campaign have acknowledged its presence by attempting to turn it into a joke. On the trail, he has even asked hecklers to time their outbursts around his breaks for it.
“Marco does have a water thing,” said one longtime Rubio associate who has been affiliated with his past campaigns. “I don’t know what it is. He says he just gets thirsty, but it’s clear it’s just a nervous tic. It’s something he just has to have around, like a security blanket or something.”
Any day now.