Tag: Marco Rubio
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Marco Rubio might be getting pressure to run for re-election, but that doesn’t seem to bother some U.S. Senate hopefuls. Five Republicans — Rep. Ron DeSantis, Rep. David Jolly, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, Carlos Beruff, and Todd Wilcox — are battling it out to replace Rubio in the U.S. Senate. Rubio, who unsuccessfully ran for president […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 27, 2016
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Everyone from Donald Trump to dozens of Republican Senators might want Marco Rubio to run for re-election. Yet one key political ally isn’t pressuring Rubio. Lenny Curry, the Jacksonville mayor and longtime friend and ally of Rubio’s, told FloridaPolitics.com Friday that “Marco makes his own decisions,” and the latest Curry saw was that Rubio was not interested. […]

Mitch PerryMay 27, 2016
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Donald Trump is pushing for Marco Rubio to re-enter the U.S. Senate seat he is scheduled to depart in January. In a tweet sent Thursday evening, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee called on his former bitter rival to get back into the contest. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/736016335197458434 Trump’s statement is just the latest indication of how concerned Republicans are that […]

Larry GriffinMay 24, 2016
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Sen. Marco Rubio will chair a hearing in Washington D.C. about the heroin epidemic on Thursday. Rubio, in his position as chair of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues, will oversee the hearing, which will be titled “Cartels and the U.S. Heroin Epidemic: Combating Drug Violence […]

Phil AmmannMay 24, 2016
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Caitlin Conant, former communications staffer with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, is joining CBS News as director of communications for the D.C. bureau and the Sunday news show “Face the Nation.” Conant is married to Alex Conant, Rubio’s former senior communications director. She most recently worked with the Rubio presidential campaign directing regional press and surrogate […]

Jim RosicaMay 24, 2016
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The former head of the national Republican Party has plugged Newt Gingrich as one possible vice presidential pick for likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. “I think of it as six words: Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich,” Haley Barbour said on Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” program on MSNBC. Barbour, a lobbyist, served as chair of […]


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