phrase appears to be 'a referendum on our identity' which was used in two of the two

question: 'Why do you keep saying the same thing about Obama

Marco Rubio is nothing if not consistent. Close to twelve hours after he began his day campaigning in New Hampshire he ended it with a rally in Nashua Community College – looking and sounding exactly the same as he had that morning.

Not a hair was out of place nor a line misspoken. Welcome to a day in the life of Senator Rubio: five tour stops, several hundred hand shakes, dozens of stories heard and just one speech portioned up and delivered over and over again.

The Nashua crowd may have been slightly diminished by the snowstorm – reserved seats went unclaimed and the decision to move the rally into the gymnasium to accommodate numbers left the venue a touch sparse. But there were still close to 400 New Hampshire voters out to support Rubio with less than 24 hours to go before polling begins.

Before he took to the stage, it was announced that ‘Fox’s own Megyn Kelly’ would conduct a brief interview at the far end of the gymnasium.

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Marco Rubio posed for pictures after a rally at Nashua Community College, New Hampshire, where he once again told the story of his parents' upbringing

Close to 400 New Hampshire voters came to support Rubio in New Hampshire, with less than 24 hours to go before polling begins

Megyn Kelly came to conduct a brief interview of Rubio at 6:45 before he went onstage, but the crowd couldn't hear what they were saying

At 6.45, fifteen minutes after the rally was scheduled to begin, Rubio and Kelly emerged and took their seats on a raised platform in front of the cameras.

Rubio’s appearance was met with a swell of chants of ‘Marco! Marco! Marco!’ ‘Don’t say Polo’ he joked as he looked out over the field of banners raised above heads.

While hair and make-up fluttered around Kelly, Rubio looked more like the plus one in this scenario with every passing moment.

With the interview underway and inaudible to the crowd the supporters in the hall were relegated to extras in this television moment – a backdrop testament to Rubio’s popularity. A flurry of excitement came with an outburst of protesters towards the back, but their shouts were quickly drowned out by Rubio’s ardent fans’ own chants.

Finally, at 7.10 Rubio took to the stage accompanied by his wife, Jeanette and their children Amanda, Daniella, Anthony and Dominic.

With hair and make-up fluttering around Kelly, Rubio looked more like a plus-one than the guest of honor with every passing moment

Rubio and Kelly emerged at 6.45, fifteen minutes after the rally was scheduled to begin. Rubio’s appearance was met with a swell of chants of ‘Marco! Marco! Marco!’ to which he replied, ‘Don’t say Polo’

After the interview, Rubio finally took to the stage at 7.10 accompanied by his wife, Jeanette and their children Amanda, Daniella, Anthony and Dominic

A day in the life of Senator Rubio included five tour stops, several hundred hand shakes, dozens of stories heard and just one speech portioned up and delivered over and over again

Standing there with his children, Rubio said ‘was a vivid reminder that this election is not a choice between the parties. It is a choice about what America is going to be like for our children.’

In a rare ad lib he added: ‘I’d like to thank the people who were here screaming a few moments ago because that means they ‘re not out getting votes.’

Queue laughter and applause.

Rubio doesn’t need a script. The chip is embedded. All he needs to do is call up the data and deliver it. And so he did what he had done all day.

He didn’t miss a beat. He dismissed Bernie Sanders – ‘a nice guy’ – as a socialist and stated that ‘just tonight it was confirmed that the FBI are investigating [Hillary Clinton’s] use of email.’

‘We cannot have a Commander in Chief that lies to the relatives who have lost family members in Benghazi.’

‘The Democrats do not want to run against me,’ he said, as he has stated many times over in GOP debates and at stump speeches. ‘They know if I’m the nominee we win. Hillary Clinton attacks me five times for every time she attacks any other Republican.’

Haven't I heard this before? Marco Rubio used a campaign stop at BAE Systems, a manufacturer which prides itself on investing in robotics

Hi-tech: Rubio was speaking at the Nashua, NH, center of BAE Systems. It prides itself on its advanced robotics - but Rubio was careful not to be photographed with one

Looking and pointing: It was a high-risk stump stop for Rubio but he made sure to avoid any pictures with robots

Rubio’s trait of repeating the same line, over and over, with little variation has seen him lambasted in recent days and labeled a robot but throughout the day he was unapologetic and tonight was no different.

‘I’m going to keep on saying it again and again,’ he said. ‘Barack Obama has damaged America.’

He listed Obama’s failures, claiming he had undermined the constitution and the second amendment, that he had put Federal government in America’s schools and betrayed allies while cutting deals with the nation’s enemies such as Iran.

‘When I am president,’ he told the crowd. ‘There will be a war on terror and if we capture a terrorist alive they’re going to go to Guantanamo.’

Turning to his own narrative – as he has done at pretty much every speech, debate and interview since launching his campaign last April – he told the crowd.

‘By now you know the story of my parents.

‘The fact that a son of a maid and of a bartender can run for the same office and have the same chance as the son of a President and the son of a millionaire,’ he said. ‘I think that’s special.’

He continued: ‘My parents lived the American dream – the American dream of being able to leave their children better off than themselves.

‘It’s our obligation to ensure not just that [the dream] survives but that it reaches more lives than it has ever touched.’

Anyone present earlier in the day could have been forgiven for feeling a distinct hint of déjà vu as the phrase was an almost pitch perfect echo of lines delivered at his first stop this morning.

For a man who’s been accused of being Rubio the Robot that first visit was a brave decision that saw him heading to a company that prides itself on its use, development and championing of all things robotic.

First on Rubio’s tour of New Hampshire this morning was a visit to BAE Systems, the British multinational defense, security and aerospace company whose Electronics System sector is headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire where it employs some 11,200 locals.

Today, however, Rubio managed to avoid the obvious gaffe of being photographed with a robot by restricting his tour to the foyer.

And he unveiled a response to the critics who say he just repeats canned talking points - and promised to repeat it 'a million times'.

On reflection: Rubio was visiting BAE systems, New Hampshire's biggest manufacturing employee and a key supplier to the Pentagon. Among the military technology it provides are systems for the Air Force

Rubio has been fighting for his reputation since Saturday night's Republican debate, when he delivered the line, 'Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.'

WHAT RUBIO THE ROBOT SAID - NOW AND LAST YEAR Nashua, 8 February 2016 My father was a bartender, my mother was a cashier at Kmart and a maid in Vegas. That's not just my story. That's our story as a people, as a nation. Nashua, 17 April 2015 Now that happens to be my story. That actually is our story. It defines us as a nation and as a people. That's not just my story, that's our story. This is who we are. And this is who we must still be. Nashua, 8 February 2016 I'm running for President. I believe the twenty-first century can be the greatest era in history. It can be a new American century. Nashua, 17 April 2015 I believe with all my heart that America's greatest days are right around the corner. The twenty-first century will be the greatest era of our nation's history. Advertisement

Then he delivered it again and again and again. In total Rubio repeated versions of the line five times – a fact that saw him roundly mocked as robotic and canned.

Chris Christie slammed the Florida senator for his habit of repeating a 'memorized 25 second speech.'

But today Rubio was unapologetic about his performance. He said: 'The press in particular say, 'Why do you keep saying the same thing about Obama trying to change America?''

Then he answered the question himself: 'I'm going to say it a million times because I think it's true.'

The response came in the course of a speech which had more than a hint of the familiar.

'My father was a bartender, my mother was a cashier at Kmart and a maid in Vegas.'

'That's not just my story,' he told the assembled crowd as he has told many hundreds before, 'That's our story as a people, as a nation.'

The line played well – just as it did last April when he told an audience in Nashua itself the same story at the First in Nation Leadership Summit.

After reciting the story of his parents' move from Cuba and humble life in America he concluded: 'Now that happens to be my story. That actually is our story. It defines us as a nation and as a people.'

Later in that same speech he returned to the theme once more, stating again, 'That's not just my story, that's our story. This is who we are. And this is who we must still be.'

That was not the only deja vu.

'I believe the twenty-first century can be the greatest era in history,' he said at one point today, building to his climactic campaign tagline. 'It can be a new American century.'

It's pretty much what he said in Nashua last April.

Speaking then he said: 'I believe with all my heart that America's greatest days are right around the corner.'

And, in an almost word for word version of today's speech, he expressed his belief that 'the twenty-first century will be the greatest era of our nation's history.'

Today he described 2016 as 'the last and best chance to make America better than she has ever been.' It was, he added, 'a referendum on our identity.'

Last year he called the 2016 election as 'a referendum on our identity.'

Much of Rubio's focus this morning fell on the subject of national defense - BAE Systems is the six-largest military supplier - and here too he stuck to the script, over and over again.

Outlining the threats facing America today he said: 'We have a lunatic in North Korea…a traditional power like China…a non-state actor like ISIS…Russia which doesn't really have the same standing on the national stage as the United States does and then Iran – another rogue state.'

Positive reception: At Mary Anne's Diner in Windham, Rubio posed for pictures with locals

On the trail: Marco Rubio and Daily Mail Online's Laura Collins

NBC re-run: Rubio was interviewed by Lester Holt for the Nightly News at the diner

Campaigning in the snow: Rubio told one Granite Stater that his children were looking forward to building more snowmen

On the road: The Rubio bus with his slogan on the side in front of BAE Systems in Nashua - a company which prides itself on its roboticss

Later, when asked about the dwindling size of the US navy he trotted out a line he'd used in his opening preamble saying that soon 'we will have the smallest navy in 100 years.' From there it was a seamless segue into 'We have a lunatic in North Korea…a traditional power like China…' Wait, did somebody hit repeat?

Asked by one member of the audience what he regarded as his 'single greatest accomplishment' Rubio humble bragged his way through a string of them.

He began with the Eminent Domain Act 'that was my law.' He spoke of a book published under his watch, '100 Ideas for Florida's Future' – close to half of which, he said, have come to fruition. He told of the Girls Count Act as something which 'will never be on the front page of any newspapers' but that he would always consider one of his most significant achievements.

And he pointed to a bill that increased sanctions on Hezbollah – a detail that seems not to have been removed from the script despite Chris Christie's intervention on Saturday night that Rubio never actually voted on it.

'That's not leadership,' the New Jersey Governor stated. 'That's truancy.'

At times Rubio seemed a little nervous, rubbing his hands together briskly as his eyes scanned the room looking for the next question.

But when it came time to wrap things up he was positively boyish as he appealed, 'Can we just take one more? I don't often get to talk about these things in such depth.

From BAE Systems the Rubio bus rumbled onto Windham and Mary Ann's Diner where he was being interviewed by theNBC Nightly News's Lester Holt.

On the road: Marco Rubio in Goffstown, New Hampshire, as he continued to hammer away at his campaign themes - with the same words

Seeking votes in the snow: At the Village Trestle in Goffstown, Rubio stuck to his tried and tested formula. Addressing the restaurant crowded with 150 loyal supporters he bullishly addressed what he described as 'this effort of Barack Obama to redefine the role that government plays'.

With the snow starting to fall Rubio observed that his kids would be excited at getting another chance to build snowmen.

Working his way through the diner packed with badge-wearing supporters Rubio gave a flawless performance. He was charming, he was warm, he was the opposite of a robot.

He met bus boys and waitresses, volunteers and veterans and teachers enjoying a snow day. 'He's so gracious' one observed. 'I'm voting for you!' somebody shouted.

At the next stop, Village Trestle in Goffstown, New Hampshire this afternoon Rubio stuck to his tried and tested formula.

Addressing the restaurant crowded with 150 loyal supporters he bullishly addressed what he described as 'this effort of Barack Obama to redefine the role that government plays.

'This deliberate attempt to change the country continues,' he added.

Warming to his theme he went a step further in defending his oft repeated point.

To the applause of the crowd he said, 'I don't know why more Republicans aren't saying the same thing.'

I don't know why more Republicans aren't saying the same thing Marco Rubio steps up the defense of his canned soundbites

As for the importance of the 2016 election if he hammered home his own particular take on proceedings in exactly the same words as he used this morning and last year. 'This is a referendum and what we are choosing is our identity.'

Echoing what he said to the employees of BAE Systems and the people of Nashua last April he continued: 'We can either remain a great nation in decline or we can be greater than we've ever been.'

Earlier in the day he spoke of the 'American dream' as something that, under his stewardship, 'won't just survive but will reach more people than ever before.'

Standing before the crowd in Goffstown he shared the same sentiment, in almost exactly the same words.

'We have the chance to do incredible things,' he told his supporters. 'We have the chance to have the American dream reach more people than it's ever reached.'

He went onto reiterate an ambition he laid out last April in strikingly similar terms.

Speaking today he told the crowd, 'We have the chance to make our kids freer and more prosperous than we are.'

Last April he told supporters, 'I believe if we do certain things our children will be the freest and most prosperous Americans that have ever lived.'