Things to know about Sen. Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick for secretary of state
President-elect Donald Trump has named Sen. Marco Rubio as his choice for secretary of state. Here are five things to know about the Republican from Florida, now in his third U.S. Senate term: He is the son of Cuban immigrants They returned to Miami when he was 14. Rubio played college football and married a pro cheerleader He became engaged to Jeanette Dousdebes, and she tried out and made the Miami Dolphins cheerleading squad. They married in 1998 and have four children. He was almost Florida’s attorney general He was a longshot candidate against then-Gov. Charlie Crist for the 2010 GOP nomination for Senate. He was pressured by party leaders to drop out of the Senate race and instead run for attorney general, with promises from the party to clear the field for him. “I had all but convinced myself to quit” the Senate race, he wrote in his memoir, “An American Son.” |
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