If Marco Rubio runs for re-election, he's got to get past 'Mini-Trump.' Will he try?

Reluctant senator and strikingly ineffective presidential candidate Marco Rubio still has a decision to make. He can hold true to his previous word and not run for re-election because, well, he's vowed up and down that he wouldn't do that—or he can break that previous vow and mount a frantic last-minute bid to keep his day job.

Since nobody truly expects a conservative politician to keep a consistent position, most Marco Rubio fans have been presuming he would flip-flop himself into mounting a re-election bid. Competing Republicans like David Jolly and Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera have either stepped out of the way or assured Rubio they would. So why's it taking so long for Rubio to decide?

This right here would be why:

“Rubio is going to have some challenges to overcome. Carlos Beruff, who is a Trump knock-off, is one of them," Mac Stipanovich, a Florida-based Republican strategist told TPM. "Marco will be facing a Mini-me of the guy he lost to badly not too long ago."

You might know Beruff as the Republican candidate who referred to the current American president as an "animal." Calling him a Mini-Trump is perhaps understating the case. The wealthy blowhard Beruff has no intention of stepping aside for the faux-moderate Rubio, not when what America really needs in the Senate is another rich, xenophobic Loud Guy.