Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio
72nd United States Secretary of State From: January 20, 2025 – present
President	Donald Trump
Predecessor	Antony Blinken
Successor	Incumbent (no successor)
Acting Director of the United States Agency for International Development From: February, 3, 2025 – present
Predecessor	Samantha Power
Successor	Incumbent (no successor)
Former U.S. Senator from Florida From: January 5, 2011 – January 20, 2025
Predecessor	George LeMieux
Successor	Ashley Moody
Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives From: November 21, 2006 – November 18, 2008
Predecessor	Allan Bense
Successor	Ray Sansom
Florida House of Representatives, 111th district From: January 25, 2000 – November 7, 2008
Predecessor	Carlos Valdes
Successor	Erik Fresen
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Party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Jeanette Dousdebes
Religion	Roman Catholic

Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971, Miami, Florida) is the Secretary of State, former senior United States Senator from Florida. Rubio has previously served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives from 2007 through 2009. He won the Florida U.S. Senate seat in the 2010 midterm elections, defeating RINO Charlie Crist in the Republican primary. Rubio is of Cuban descent.

Background

Rubio's parents came to the United States in 1956, two and a half years before the communist takeover of Cuba by Fidel Castro. In Florida, his father worked as a bartender, and his mother worked as a waitress. They relocated to Las Vegas in 1979 when Marco was 8 years old, where his father worked as a bartender at Sam's Town, and his mother worked as a housekeeper at the Imperial Palace. Six years later, the Rubio family returned to Miami where Marco's father found work at the Mayfair Hotel.

Rubio earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Florida and a juris doctor from the University of Miami. He is married to Jeanette Dousdebes, and they have 4 children: Amanda Loren, Daniella, Anthony, and Dominick.

During his tenure in the state legislature (2001-2009), he advocated an overhaul of the Florida tax system that would have eliminated all property taxes in favor of a flat consumption tax. Americans for Tax Reform called him "the most pro-taxpayer legislative leader in the country." Additionally, he is a strong advocate of limited government and private property rights.

Secretary of State (2025-)

The end of unipolarity: Megyn Kelly interview

In his first interview after being sworn into office as Secretary of State in January 2025, Rubio told Megyn Kelly:

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What the dishonesty that has existed is, that we somehow led people to believe that Ukraine would be able not just to defeat Russia, but, you know, destroy them, push them all the way back to what the world looked like in 2014...Ukraine is being set back a hundred years...Their energy grid is being wiped out...And you know how many Ukrainians have left Ukraine, living in other countries now?...They may never return.

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Rubio recognized that unipolarity, having one centre of power in the world, was a temporary phenomenon that has now passed:

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it's not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power. That was not – that was an anomaly. It was a product of the end of the Cold War, but eventually you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet.

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Rubio suggested that the hegemonic position of the US resulted in a weakening of the Westphalian system based on sovereign states, and replaced it with a globalist system where the US claimed the role of a world policeman:

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And I think that was lost at the end of the Cold War, because we were the only power in the world, and so we assumed this responsibility of sort of becoming the global government in many cases, trying to solve every problem.

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Political views

Rubio speaking in an event in Iowa in January 2016.

Rubio supported the Tea Party Movement. He does not believe in Global warming, opposes Gun control and is Pro-life. He withdrew his support from the liberal PIPA entertainment bill after hearing from citizens opposed to it.

Creationism

Rubio supports the teaching of the young earth theory rather than allowing atheists and liberals to impose censorship in public school.

Foreign Policy

Rubio is tough on China, urged against Biden to give more armed support to Israel to fight genocidal Islamist Hamas.

Immigration (earlier views)

In 2013, Rubio wanted to give undocumented immigrants brought as minors a form of temporary legal status, but he stressed then it would not be a pathway to citizenship.

Homosexuality

Rubio believes homosexuality is inborn, but wants the states to be able to decide matters on homosexual "rights," including "marriage" and adoption.

Muslims and Islam

In 2015, Marco Rubio has downplayed the threat to America posed by migrating Muslims and Islamic ideology, and has proposed a new plan for helping Barack Obama resettle Syrian refugees in the United States. During a 2016 presidential forum with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, Rubio also condemned a recreational gun range that banned Muslims from their facility, and claimed, "The bottom line is there are millions of patriotic Muslim Americans."

US Senate (2011 - 2025)

Conservatives helped Rubio win his upset victory for U.S. Senate, but soon after his election Rubio quickly catered to the Establishment instead. He became part of the "Gang of Eight" that promoted phony "immigration reform," at the urging of liberal Democrats. He also quickly became a neocon. He declared that he would not run for reelection, but would run for president instead.

Miami Herald endorsement

The Miami Herald wholeheartedly endorsed Rubio during the 2010 Senate race:

"At this critical juncture in the nation’s economy, Mr. Rubio offers a welcome dose of fiscal restraint. He has exhibited common sense on Social Security, where he proposes raising the retirement age as a way of keeping the program solvent. Neither Mr. Crist nor Mr. Meek has dared to make take such a clear stand. Mr. Rubio has the potential to be the kind of statesman Floridians can be proud to call a native son -- much like another conservative, former Senator Connie Mack."

2016 Presidential election campaign

On April 13, 2015, Rubio announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. Originally supported by the Establishment, Rubio later obtained independent financial backing and stayed in the race longer than the Establishment wanted, which then used Chris Christie to destroy Rubio at the key debate before the New Hampshire primary.

Many prominent neocon Rubio supporters later acquired positions in the Trump administration, and used those positions to sabotage President Trump's agenda from within. These people included Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo. It is unknown what role -- if any -- Rubio himself played in said sabotage, but the fact that said saboteurs all supported him in 2016 cannot be ignored.

Quotes

• Sane people don't believe the government was almost overthrown by a guy wearing a Viking hat and Speedos.

External links

• Senate Website
• Facebook page
• Twitter page
• YouTube channel
• Marco Rubio 2016 campaign website (archived Jan/17/25)