I just think they both seem a little canned. Inauthentic. Groomed by handlers.
Setting aside his awful entanglement with the Gang of 8, Rubio actually has a good track record. But he has not yet even begun to pay the penance for that.
Is he irredeemable? No. I will not be shocked if Trump were to select him as VP.
His campaign has not been awful... they spun like hell after the NH debate, so he's got good staff... but there was only so much to be done in that situation.
Cruz, on the other hand, has NOT been well-served by his campaign staff. He picked dirty staff, and now he's been tagged as sleezy and as a liar, and I actually don't think that is completely unjustified. Unlike Rubio, I think Cruz is done politically after this cycle. He'll be a good Senator for Texas, but there's not a ladder for him to climb higher. Just my opinion, of course.
I’d rather see TRUMP/CRUZ than TRUMP/RUBIO.
The right VP choice by Trump could mean at least 16 years of recovery for America. I don’t know who he should pick. Maybe somebody nobody knows who is a constitutionalism and a lover of individual freedom and limited government and will do the right thing and doesn’t care what people think of him - has no political ambition other than continue Trump’s quest to make America great again.