Marco Rubio Marco Antonio RubioFlorida senators pushing to keep Daylight Savings Time during pandemic Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll Intelligence chief says Congress will get some in-person election security briefings MORE is defending his controversial stance on abortion, saying he would rather lose votes than bend on what he sees as an important moral issue.

"I want to be frank," the Florida senator told the New Hampshire audience at Saturday night's Republican debate. "I would rather lose an election than be wrong on the issue of life."

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Rubio was questioned about whether his hardline opposition to abortion — he believes there should not be exceptions for rape or incest, only to save the life of the mother — could appeal to millennials. Other pro-life Republicans on stage, including Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, believe abortions should be allowed when a woman has been raped or is the victim of incest and have gone after Rubio on the issue.

The Clinton campaign is preparing to paint Rubio as an extremist on abortion and will likely use it as one of their main attacks against him should he be the Republican nominee.

But Rubio said he would be the one making abortion a general election issue. He replied that he found it outrageous that the media had not grilled the Democrats during their debates over their "extremist" positions.

"On abortion the Democrats are extremists," Rubio said. "Why doesn't the media ask Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonHillicon Valley: FBI chief says Russia is trying to interfere in election to undermine Biden | Treasury Dept. sanctions Iranian government-backed hackers The Hill's Campaign Report: Arizona shifts towards Biden | Biden prepares for drive-in town hall | New Biden ad targets Latino voters FBI chief says Russia is trying to interfere in election to undermine Biden MORE why she believes that all abortions should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child?

"Why don't they ask Hillary Clinton why she believes that partial birth abortion, which is a gruesome procedure ... she thinks that's a fundamental right," Rubio added.

"They are the extremists when it comes to the issue of abortion and I can't wait to expose them in a general election."