This article is about American politician, Republican Party member, senator and Tea Party favorite (there is such a movement) Marco Rubio, who was born in 1971 in Miami. He is included in the top 100 most influential people in the world according to Time.
Start
The parents of a prominent politician emigrated from Cuba in 1956, and in 1975 became US citizens. Oria Garcia and Mario Rubio settled first in Florida, then in Nevada (Las Vegas), where he spent the most interesting part of Marco Rubio's childhood. However, in Florida, where his parents returned in the 80s, everything was going well too. Marco Rubio became a high school football star and even received a special scholarship to Tarkio College of Missouri as a football player. However, a year later he transferred to the university.
In 1987, the family suffered major troubles: the husband of Barbara's sister was caught in the drug trade and was convicted. The process was loud, although none of the relatives of Marco Rubio were involved in it, the family experienced this incident hard. The politician has two sisters. The eldest is Barbara, and the youngest is Veronica, and everyone hasrelations with each other are very warm, so there were many 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: from the city government of Miami to the House of Representatives of Florida, he got a year later. From 2003 to 2006, he was Majority Leader, then Speaker. In 2011, he took the chair of the senator from Florida.
How this path went can be seen from the analysis of the activities of a young and promising politician, since at present he is already a candidate for the US presidency. In 1999, he won the House of Representatives, where in a by-election he smashed Democrat Anastasia Garcia with 28 percent to his 72 percent. He was then 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, Democrats, and party members.
Principles
Sociologists say that the support of Marco Rubio, a very young and already experienced senator, enjoys very broad support: 61 percent of colleagues, 83 percent of Republicans, more than half of independent senators. Only Democrats don't like his work, as he tries to enforce the main principles of the Republican Party, such as limiting the rights of government intervention in civil life, tax liability, Christian denomination.and family values.
When Marco Rubio, whose biography is more than completely saturated with political and social activities, stopped working in the Florida House of Representatives, he taught the same political science at Florida International University. 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 as a candidate for US President.
Senate
Rubio chaired the Subcommittee on Atmosphere, Oceans, Coast Guard and Fisheries in the Committee on Transport, Science and Trade.
In 2012, the Romney team seriously considered 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 leading the Subcommittee on Global Drugs and the entire Western Hemisphere (Committee on Foreign Relations). Evidently, caution in judgments even concerning the simplest "school" questions made a favorable impression on the senators. That's all 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 Crimean peninsula. Rubio called financial and visa restrictions for the political and business environment of President Putin, as well as economic pressure on Russia, possible measures. As you can see, in this case, all his requirements were met. Moreover, the US forced almost half of the world to join the sanctions.
Marco Rubio is a senator with a fairly high authority among his colleagues. And he continues to advocate tougher sanctions against Russia. Moreover, he wants a complete cessation of the dialogue between our countries. That is, in foreign policy, he is unlikely to have enough sincere supporters, 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 about to begin. In the same speech, he, as many think, recklessly calls Hillary Clinton "yesterday's leader", criticizes the actions of President Barack Obama, especially Iran's nuclear program as a joint plan, detente relations with Cuba, and so on.
Obama may miss it, but Hillary Clinton will definitely remember. And, I must say that it is her, and not Trump, that experts see as the winner of the presidential race in November 2016. However, Marco Rubio, whose rating is quite high even now, is still ahead. He is young, he has brilliant oratorical skills, a lot of energy. Perhaps next time the electorate will be ripe for a positive decision regarding his candidacy in the next presidential election.
Struggle and principles
By entering the electoral campaign, Rubio was forced to retract many of his postulates, such as his position on illegal immigration. After all, quite recently he was at the very core of the so-called Gangeight, the same group of senators that was drafting the grandiose bill to legalize immigrants who are illegally in the United States without proper documents.
Most Americans not only found this initiative strange, they accepted it with hostility. Marco Rubio recognized this policy as erroneous, and also said that it was impossible to carry out such a reform through Congress. However, he was out of luck. He was beaten in the primaries in January 2016 not only by Donald Trump, but also by Ted Cruz. Marco Rubio was forced to withdraw his candidacy.
Private life
A first-generation American, Marco Rubio, a descendant of migrants from Cuba and one of the youngest legislators in US history, never tires of declaring that it was he who managed to realize the cherished "American dream": to break into big politics without influential relatives and capitals. The politician's father worked as a bartender, and his mother worked as a cashier and maid. He married Jenette Daudebs, whose parents came to the US from Colombia.
This marriage has been going on for almost a quarter of a century, and the couple met at school: Jenette was not just a fan of that football team in Miami, where Marco shone, she danced like a cheerleader in support of her. There are four children in this family: equally boys and girls. It is for them that Marco Rubio is trying, a prominent politician promises a new American century on the planet.
Mirror reflection
Marco Rubio repeatedly heard about the similarity of hispolitical activities since the beginning of Barack Obama. It looks like it was a career. Both began political studies early, their careers developed equally quickly, one might say, rapidly. Both are active and have tenacious political acumen. Apparently, Rubio took Obama's 2008 presidential campaign as a model, despite the fact that he himself understands that any similarities in this case will only hurt. That is why Rubio is doing everything to position himself as the antipode of the incumbent president. Obama's positions are constantly criticized by him, although Rubio does not offer alternative solutions.
British The Guardian ironically illustrates this relationship: Rubio's goals stretch to become the candidate of the Republican Party, make Cuba a democratic state by extending sanctions for another hundred years, somehow resolve the outrages with immigration, eliminate ISIS continue arming Israel, preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, continuing to repeat what Bush said, but with a more Spanish accent, by means that Obama does not use. It is also emphasized with humor that the ardent Catholic Rubio visits Baptist churches from time to time for a change.
Dedication
To make certain political predictions about the future career of Marco Rubio, you need to remember with what perseverance and purposefulness he went up, from time to time jumping over a couple of steps on the career ladder. As a law graduate, he was exceptionally quickly promoted to head ofadministration of Miami, 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 election to the Senate, but even this is very little for such a young man.
He was opposed by very venerable politicians: Democrat Mick and independent Krist, who had just left the governor's chair and was considered the favorite. Rubio not only caught up, he got eighty-four percent of the vote in the primaries! Further, he decides on international affairs and intelligence affairs, while at the same time entering a very narrow circle of fellow party members who consider issues of party finance and party policy. Already in 2012, he was predicted for the Republican candidates as a partner of 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 the first persons 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. Since the noise around Marco Rubio did not subside, the young and promising politician was expected to be nominated for participation in the current presidential campaign. As a member of the Republican Party, he supports the aspirations of his fellow party members in everything. He stands for a balanced budget, for a flat income tax and simplified taxation, for a ban on investment taxes (which is very beneficial for rich Americans, and it is on them that the Republican Party relies).
Also, Marco Rubioopponent of abortion and homosexual marriages, the legalization of marijuana, the uncontrolled circulation of weapons. With all this, Republicans are intolerant of illegal immigrants, and Marco Rubio supported Obama's immigration policy, due to which millions of illegal migrants from Latin America receive American citizenship. Rubio even developed a project himself, from the implementation of which he later renounced. In foreign policy, this is a monster, next to which Obama seems soft-bodied, despite the bombing of a dozen countries and the brutal murders of their leaders. Rubio is in favor of joining Georgia to NATO, stop trade and any relations with Russia, and supply Ukraine with the latest weapons.
Middle East
Among Republicans, not even Trump, but Rubio, has accumulated impressive foreign policy experience: four years of work in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Intelligence in the Senate, more than a dozen trips abroad, where meetings with heads of state took place. His ties are especially serious in the Middle East: Jordan, Israel - where he was received by the president and prime minister. Rubio also visited the Palestinian Authority. Speaking of similarities, Obama also visited the Middle East during his presidential campaign.
Unlike Obama, Marco Rubio did not travel for partnerships. It increasingly links Washington to Tel Aviv. But he completely rejects the reset of relations with Iran. The Iraqi issue in Rubio's coverage is considered opportunistic at all: it is rightwas America, invading the territory of a foreign country, then wrong, then right again - depending on the trends of the political wind. Even the fact that ISIS was created because of the American invasion of Iraq is either confirmed by him or denied.
