--- title: Marco Rubio Pitches Himself As Above Special Interests in Ad description: Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio released a new ad Tuesday and appears to making a run before the Iowa Caucus. canonical: https://time.com/4194442/marco-rubio-new-iowa-ad/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-26T19:57:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:27:33.661Z article:section: Politics og:title: Marco Rubio Pitches Himself As Above Special Interests in Iowa Ad og:description: He delivers a subtle jab at the competition before the Iowa Caucus. og:url: https://time.com/4194442/marco-rubio-new-iowa-ad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dc2c2b75c5a1804/69887a22f887dc6ea3e94427/506128152.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Marco Rubio on Jimmy Fallon og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Marco Rubio Pitches Himself As Above Special Interests in Iowa Ad twitter:description: He delivers a subtle jab at the competition before the Iowa Caucus. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dc2c2b75c5a1804/69887a22f887dc6ea3e94427/506128152.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Marco Rubio Pitches Himself As Above Special Interests in Iowa Ad by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 26, 2016 7:57 PM UTC  Senator Marco Rubio on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon on January 21, 2016 Senator Marco Rubio on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon on January 21, 2016NBC—2016 NBCUniversal Media, LLC by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 26, 2016 7:57 PM UTC Republican presidential candidate [Marco Rubio](http://time.com/4172034/marco-rubio-criticism-republicans/) released a new ad in Iowa Tuesday, pitching himself as someone who will fight special interests. In the ad, voters are seen watching the Florida senator pitch himself on television, while they watch—essentially an ad within an ad. Rubio is currently polling third in Iowa, behind front-runner Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. He’s [looking to pull ahead](http://time.com/4194218/marco-rubio-football-revenge/) as the early-voting Caucus grows closer, pitching himself as an [establishment alternative](http://time.com/4172034/marco-rubio-criticism-republicans/) to Trump and Cruz, two outsider candidates. The ad also includes a line which may be a potential knock at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. “Washington is broken and both parties are to blame,” Rubio says. “But it will never get better if we keep sending people to Washington who will say or do anything to get elected.” **Read Next:** [_Watch Marco Rubio Hurl Footballs at Conservatives Who Doubted Him_](http://time.com/4194218/marco-rubio-football-revenge/) Republicans are looking for a candidate that could bring the heat to Clinton in the general election—and Rubio wants to be that guy. The son of Cuban immigrants, Rubio says he owes a lot to the country: “I tell people all the time: America doesn’t owe me anything, but I have a debt to America I can never repay.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4194442/marco-rubio-new-iowa-ad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4194442/marco-rubio-new-iowa-ad/"},"headline":"Marco Rubio Pitches Himself As Above Special Interests in Iowa Ad","datePublished":"2016-01-26T19:57:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:27:33.661Z","description":"He delivers a subtle jab at the competition before the Iowa Caucus","url":"https://time.com/4194442/marco-rubio-new-iowa-ad/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Sen. 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