This article is about American politics, a member of the Republican Party, Senator and favorite of the Tea Party (there is such a movement) Marco Rubio, who was born in 1971 in the state of Miami. He is included in the top 100 most influential people in the world according to Time.
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The parents of a prominent political figure emigrated from Cuba in 1956, and in 1975 became US citizens. Oriya Garcia and Mario Rubio settled first in Florida, then in Nevada (Las Vegas), where he spent the most interesting piece of his childhood Marco Rubio. However, in Florida, where his parents returned in the 80s, everything turned out well. Marco Rubio became a school football star and even received a special scholarship to the Missouri Tarkio College as a soccer player. However, a year later he transferred to the university.
In 1987, the family suffered serious troubles: the sister of Barbara's husband got involved in drug trafficking and was convicted. The process was loud, although none of Marco Rubio's relatives was involved in it, the family was experiencing this incident hard. The politician has two sisters. The eldest is Barbara, and the youngest is Veronica, and everyone has a very warm relationship with each other, so there were a lot of experiences.
Political career
After receiving a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida, Marco Antonio Rubio decided to continue his studies and received his law degree in Miami in 1996. Two years later, his career went up sharply: he got from the city of Miami to the Florida House of Representatives a year later. From 2003 to 2006 he was the leader of the majority, then - the speaker. In 2011, he took the Senator seat from Florida.
How this path went is evident from an analysis of the activities of a young and promising politician, because at this time he is already a candidate for president of the United States. In 1999, he won a victory in the House of Representatives, where in the by-elections he devastatingly left behind Democrat Anastasia Garcia with twenty-eight percent against his seventy-two. Then he was re-elected three times. In 2010, there were elections to the US Senate, where he won almost fifty percent of the vote, defeating independent candidates, and Democrats, and party members.
Principles
Sociologists claim that the support of Marco Rubio, a senator is very young and already experienced, enjoys a very wide: 61 percent of colleagues, 83 percent of Republicans, more than half of independent senators. Only Democrats do not like his work, because he is trying to enforce the main principles of the Republican Party, such as restricting the rights of government interference in civilian life, tax liability, Christianity and family values.
When Marco Rubio, whose biography is more than fully saturated with political and social activities, stopped working in the House of Representatives of Florida, he taught all the same political science at the International University of Florida. And by the way, he did not leave this occupation even when he was elected to the Senate, although there the rules limit income at the level of twenty-four thousand dollars a year. It probably played a role when Marco ran for president.
The senate
Rubio led the Subcommittee on Atmosphere, Oceans, Coast Guard and Fisheries on the Transport, Science and Trade Committee.
In 2012, the Romney team seriously studied the candidacy of Mark Rubio as vice president, and in 2015, when the Republicans won the midterm elections, all of the above did not stop Rubio from chairing the Subcommittee on Global Drug Issues and the entire Western Hemisphere (Committee on Foreign Relations). Apparently, the caution in judging even the simplest “school” questions made a favorable impression on the senators. This is the whole of Marco Rubio.
About Russia
In 2014, he was one of the first to demand sanctions for our country in connection with the annexation of the Crimea peninsula. Possible measures Rubio called financial, visa restrictions for the political and business environment of President Putin, as well as economic pressure on Russia. As you can see, in this case, all of his requirements were met. Moreover, the United States forced almost half the world to join the sanctions.
Marco Rubio is a senator with a fairly high authority among colleagues. And he continues to advocate for tougher sanctions against Russia. Moreover, he wants a complete cessation of dialogue between our countries. That is, in foreign policy, his sincere supporters are unlikely to be enough, but so far everything is going according to his plan.
Presidential campaign
In April 2015, the senator made an official announcement that his presidential election campaign was beginning. In the same speech, he is recklessly called by Hillary Clinton “yesterday’s leader, ” criticizing President Barack Obama’s actions, especially Iran’s nuclear program, as a joint plan, defusing relations with Cuba and so on.
Obama may have missed it, but Hillary Clinton will definitely remember. And, I must say that it is her, not Trump, who experts see the winner of the presidential race in November 2016. However, Marco Rubio, whose rating is high enough now, is still ahead. He is young, he has brilliant oratory, a lot of energy. Perhaps next time the electorate will ripen for a positive decision regarding his candidacy in the next presidential election.
Fight and principles
Having entered the election campaign, Rubio was forced to renounce many of his postulates, for example, the position on illegal immigration. Indeed, most recently, he was in the very core of the so-called Gang of Eight, that group of senators who prepared a grand bill to legalize immigrants illegally residing in the United States without relevant documents.
Most Americans not only found this initiative strange, they took it with hostility. Marco Rubio acknowledged this policy as a mistake, and also said that such a reform through Congress is impossible. Nevertheless, he was unlucky. He went to the primaries in January 2016, not only Donald Trump, but also Ted Cruz. Marco Rubio was forced to withdraw his candidacy.
Personal life
The first-generation American, Marco Rubio, being a descendant of Cuban migrants and one of the youngest lawmakers in US history, never tire of declaring that he was the one who managed to realize the cherished "American dream": to break into big politics without influential relatives and capital. The politician's father worked as a bartender, and his mother worked as a cashier and maid. He married Janett Daudebs, whose parents came to the United States from Colombia.
This marriage has been going on for almost a quarter of a century, and the couple met at school: Janet was not just a fan of the football team in Miami, where Marco shone, she danced as a cheerleader in her support. There are four children in this family: equally boys and girls. It is for them that Marco Rubio is trying, promising a new American century on the planet, a prominent politician.
Mirror reflection
Marco Rubio has repeatedly heard about the similarity of his political activities with the way Barack Obama began. A career was very similar. Both began political studies early, their careers developed equally fast, one might say, rapidly. Both are active and have a tenacious political grip. Apparently, Rubio took Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 as a model, despite the fact that he himself understands that any similarities in this case will only harm. That is why Rubio is doing everything to position himself as the antipode of the current president. Obama's position is constantly criticized on his part, although Rubio does not offer alternative solutions.
The British The Guardian ironically illustrates this relationship: Rubio’s goals are to become a Republican candidate, make Cuba a democratic state, extend sanctions for another hundred years, somehow resolve the ugliness with immigration, eliminate ISIS by means that do not applies Obama to continue to arm Israel, to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, to continue repeating what Bush said, but with a more Spanish pronunciation. It is also emphasized with humor that the ardent Catholic Rubio occasionally visits Baptist temples for a change.
Determination
To make certain political predictions regarding Marco Rubio’s future career, you need to remember how persistently and purposefully he went up, occasionally jumping over a couple of steps in the career ladder. As a graduate of the law faculty, he quickly gained the post of head of the Miami administration, already in 1999 he confidently defeated extremely experienced rivals and received a seat in the Florida legislature. True, it took ten years to win the Senate election, but even this is very small for such a young man.
Politicians opposed him very venerable: Democrat Mick and independent Christ, who had just left the governor’s chair and was considered a favorite. Rubio did not just catch up, he received eighty-four percent of the vote in the primaries! Then he decides on international affairs and intelligence affairs, at the same time entering a very narrow circle of party members who consider issues of party finance and party politics. Already in 2012, he was expected to be a candidate from the Republicans as his partner Mitt Romney and, accordingly, in case of victory, he was seen as vice president. Rubio, however, assured everyone that he was not interested in the posts of top officials of the state.
Ratings
Nevertheless, for two years (until 2014) the name of this politician did not leave the American press, he was mentioned more often than all Republicans combined, he was even called the savior of the party. As the noise around Marco Rubio did not cease, a young and promising politician was expectedly put forward to participate in the current presidential campaign. He, as a member of the Republican Party, fully supports the aspirations of party members. He advocates a balanced budget, a flat scale of income tax and simplified taxation, a ban on investment tax (which is very beneficial for wealthy Americans, and the Republican Party relies on them).
In addition, Marco Rubio is an opponent of abortion and homosexual marriage, legalization of marijuana, uncontrolled trafficking in weapons. For all this, Republicans are intolerant of illegal immigrants, and Marco Rubio supported Obama's immigration policy, through which millions of illegal migrants from Latin America receive American citizenship. Rubio himself even developed a project, which he later repudiated. In foreign policy, this is a monster, next to which Obama seems soft-bodied, despite the bombing of a dozen countries and the brutal killings of their leaders. Rubio is in favor of ending Georgia’s accession to NATO, ending trade and any relations with Russia, and abundantly supplying Ukraine with the latest weapons.
