'Was that cool or what?': Rubio's daughter Daniella introduces him before first post-midterm speech

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was beaming Friday after his youngest daughter, Daniella, a third-year law student at the University of Virginia, introduced him at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention in Washington, the New York Post reported.

"Was that cool or what?" Rubio said when he took the stage. "I don't know where she got this. There's no stage fright. She's not afraid to speak. I don't really like public speaking that much, but she, on the other hand, that's fantastic."

Asked by a law student how to pass a love of freedom on to the next generation, Rubio joked that "my home was not a democracy," adding that he was "not the dictator" of the family but "the minister of defense."

In the speech itself, his first since the midterms, Rubio pointed conservatives to Ronald Reagan's 1982 midterm losses. "Great things that last are built in decades, not election cycles," he said. "We are persuaded of the justice of our cause, and we too will triumph in the end." Video of the introduction has spread widely on X.