Everyone who is anyone in the 2016 presidential race is attacking Marco Rubio.

The Floridian isn’t leading in any of the most-watched GOP primary polls — national, Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina. Yet with first votes less than six weeks away, he is being treated almost as if he is the front-runner. Almost daily, Rubio is taking fire from Republican rivals and their super PACs, critics in the conservative, liberal and mainstream media, and the Democrats — multidirectional hits that neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton are being subjected to.

“Rubio is the biggest threat to every major candidate in both parties,” said Jim Dornan, a Republican consultant in Washington who is not aligned with any candidate. “His campaign’s challenge is to not let these attacks throw them off their game plan.”

Read the article “Marco Rubio’s Opponents Treating Him Like the Front-Runner” on washingtonexaminer.com.