On Monday night Florida Senator Marco Rubio became the third major Republican candidate to announce he was officially running for president after Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. He made the announcement from the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami considered the Ellis Island of Florida where Cuban refugees seeking political asylum from Castros communist regime were processed by the federal government in the 60s and early 70s. It made a powerful statement that the son of refugees is now running for president.
Rubios parents came to America before the Castro regime and took menial jobs. He told the cheering crowd My father stood behind a small portable bar in the back of a room so that tonight I could stand behind this podium in front of this room."
Rubio has been an outspoken critic of Obamas efforts to relax relations with Cuba and takes a hawkish approach to foreign policy. Earlier this year he published the book American Dreams which lays out how to rise to success economically in the U.S.
The youngest candidate in the race Rubio reached out to younger voters in his speech saying This election is not just about what laws we will pass it is a generational choice about what kind of country we will be."
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On Monday night Florida Senator Marco Rubio became the third major Republican candidate to announce he was officially running for president after Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. He made the announcement from the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami considered the Ellis Island of Florida where Cuban refugees seeking political asylum from Castros communist regime were processed by the federal government in the 60s and early 70s. It made a powerful statement that the son of refugees is now running for president.
Rubios parents came to America before the Castro regime and took menial jobs. He told the cheering crowd My father stood behind a small portable bar in the back of a room so that tonight I could stand behind this podium in front of this room."
Rubio has been an outspoken critic of Obamas efforts to relax relations with Cuba and takes a hawkish approach to foreign policy. Earlier this year he published the book American Dreams which lays out how to rise to success economically in the U.S.
The youngest candidate in the race Rubio reached out to younger voters in his speech saying This election is not just about what laws we will pass it is a generational choice about what kind of country we will be."
Read the rest of the article at The Stream