Marco Rubio is a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Biography, political career

This article is about American politics, a member of the Republican Party, a senator and a favorite of "Tea Party" (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.

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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 childhood Marco Rubio. However, in Florida, where his parents returned in the 80s, everything also went well. Marco Rubio became the star of school football and even received a special scholarship in Tarkio College, Missouri as a football player. However, a year later he moved to the university.

In 1987, the family suffered major trouble: her husband's sister Barbara was caught in drug trafficking and was convicted. The process was loud, although none of Marco Rubio's relatives was attracted to him, the family experienced 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 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 a law degree in Miami in 1996. Two years later, his career drastically increased: from Miami city government to the House of Representatives of Florida, he fell in a year. From 2003 to 2006, he was the leader of the majority, then - the speaker. In 2011, he took over the chair of the senator from Florida.

How this way passed is evident from the analysis of the young and highly promising politician, since at present he is already a candidate for the presidency of the United States. In 1999, he won a victory in the House of Representatives, where in an additional election he demolished Democrat Anastasia Garcia with twenty-eight percent against his seventy-two. Then he was reelected three times. In 2010 there were elections to the US Senate, where he won almost fifty percent of the vote, defeating both independent candidates, and Democrats and Party members.

Principles

Sociologists say that the support of Marco Rubio, the senator is very young and already experienced, enjoys a very broad: 61 percent of colleagues, 83 percent of Republicans, more than half of independent senators. Only the democrats do not like his work, as he tries to enforce the main principles of the Republican Party, such as restricting the rights of government intervention in civil life, tax liability, Christian worship and family values.

When Marco Rubio, whose biography is more than full of political and social activities, stopped working in the Florida House of Representatives, he taught the same political science at the International University of Florida. And, by the way, 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. Perhaps this played a role when Marco ran as a candidate for the presidency of the United States.

Senate

Rubio headed the Subcommittee on the Atmosphere, Oceans, Coast Guard and Fisheries in the Committee on Transport, Science and Trade.

In 2012, the team Romney seriously studied the candidacy of Mark Rubio as vice president, and in 2015, when the Republicans won in the midterm elections, all of the above did not prevent Rubio from chairing the Subcommittee on Global Drug Problems and the entire Western Hemisphere (Committee on Foreign Relations) . Apparently, caution in judgments, even concerning the simplest "school" questions, made a favorable impression on the senators. That's the whole 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 has forced to join the sanctions almost half of the world.

Marco Rubio is a senator with a high reputation among colleagues. And he continues to advocate tightening sanctions against Russia. Moreover, he wants a complete cessation of the dialogue between our countries. That is, in his 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 starting. In the same speech, he recklessly calls Hillary Clinton "yesterday's leader", criticizes the actions of President Barack Obama, especially the nuclear program of Iran as a joint plan, relaxation of relations with Cuba, and so on.

Obama, perhaps, will miss it, but Hillary Clinton will remember exactly. And, I must say that it is her, not Trump, that experts see as 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 a brilliant oratorical skill, a lot of energy. Perhaps, the next time the electorate ripens for a positive decision regarding his candidacy in the next presidential election.

Struggle and principles

Entering the election campaign, Rubio was forced to renounce many of his postulates, for example from the position on illegal immigration. After all, most recently he was in the very core of the so-called Gang of Eight, the group of senators who were preparing a grandiose bill for the legalization of immigrants illegally staying in the US without proper documents.

Not only did this initiative seem strange to the majority of Americans, they accepted it with hostility. Marco Rubio acknowledged this policy as erroneous, and also said that it is impossible to carry out such a reform through the Congress. Nevertheless, he was not lucky. 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 American in the first generation, Marco Rubio, being a descendant of migrants from Cuba and one of the youngest lawmakers in the history of the US, never tires of saying that it was he who managed to fulfill the cherished "American dream": to get into a big politics without influential relatives and capitals. The father of the politician worked as a barman, and his mother as a cashier and a maid. He married Janet Daudbes, whose parents came to the United States from Colombia.

The marriage lasts for almost a quarter of a century, and the couple met at school: Janet was not just a fan of that football team in Miami, where Marco was shining, she danced like a cheerleader in her support. In this family there are four children: equally boys and girls. It is for them and tries Marco Rubio, promises 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 how Barack Obama started. It was very similar career. Both early began political studies, their career developed equally quickly, one might say, swiftly. Both are active and have a tenacious political grip. Apparently, Rubio took as his model Obama's presidential campaign of 2008, despite the fact that he himself understands that any similarities in this case will only harm. That's why Rubio is doing everything to position himself as the antipode of the incumbent president. Obama's positions are constantly criticized on his part, although he does not offer alternative solutions.

The British Guardian illustrates these relations with irony: Rubio aims to become a candidate from the Republican Party, to make Cuba a democratic state, extending sanctions for another hundred years, somehow to raze the disgrace with immigration, to eliminate IGIL by means that are not Obama applies, continues to arm Israel, prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, continue to repeat what Bush said, but with more Spanish pronunciation. Also, with humor, it is emphasized that the rabbi Catholic Rubio occasionally visits Baptist temples for a variety.

Purposefulness

To make certain political forecasts about the future career of Marco Rubio, one must remember with what tenacity and purposefulness he went up, occasionally jumping over a couple of steps of the career ladder. Being a graduate of the Faculty of Law, he quickly received the post of head of the administration of Miami, already in 1999, confidently defeated the extremely experienced rivals and got a seat in the legislative assembly of Florida. It took ten years to win the Senate elections, but it's too little 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 the favorite. Rubio did not just catch up, he got eighty-four percent of the vote in the primaries! Further, he decides international affairs and intelligence matters, while entering a very narrow circle of party members who are considering party finance issues and party policies. Already in 2012, he was nominated as Republican candidate as Mitt Romney's team-mate, and, in case of victory, was seen as vice-president. Rubio, however, assured everyone that he was not interested in the posts of the top officials of the state.

Ratings

Nevertheless, two years (until 2014), the name of this politician from the American press did not go away, he was mentioned more often than all Republicans, taken together, he was even called the savior of the party. As the noise around Marco Rubio did not abate, a young and promising politician was expected to be invited to participate in the current presidential campaign. He as a member of the Republican Party in all supports the aspirations of party members. He stands for a balanced budget, for a flat scale of income tax and simplified taxation, for the prohibition of investment tax (which is very much in the hands of rich Americans, and it is the Republican Party that relies on them).

In addition, Marco Rubio is opposed to abortion and homosexual marriage, the legalization of marijuana, the uncontrolled turnover of arms. At the same time, Republicans are intolerant of illegal immigrants, and Marco Rubio supported Obama's immigration policy, through which millions of illegal immigrants from Latin America receive American citizenship. Rubio himself even developed a project, from the implementation of which he subsequently renounced. In foreign policy, this is a monster, next to which Obama seems to be spineless, despite the bombing of a dozen countries and the brutal murders of their leaders. Rubio stands for joining Georgia to NATO, trade and any relations with Russia to cease, and Ukraine is abundantly supplied with the most advanced weapons.

Near East

Among the Republicans, not even Trump, namely Rubio, gained impressive foreign policy experience: four years of work in the Committee on International Affairs and Intelligence in the Senate, more than fifteen foreign trips, where meetings were held with the heads of state. Especially serious are its ties in the Middle East: Jordan, Israel - where it was received by the president and prime minister. Also, Rubio also visited the Palestinian autonomy. By the way, about the similarities: Obama during the presidential election campaign also visited the Middle East.

Unlike Obama, Marco Rubio was not behind the partnership relations. He is increasingly connecting Washington with Tel Aviv. But he completely rejects the reset of relations with Iran. The Iraqi issue in the coverage by Rubio is considered opportunistic: America was right, having invaded the territory of a foreign country, it is not right, then again right, depending on the political wind. Even the fact that the IG was created because of the Americans' invasion of Iraq is either confirmed by it or denied.