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Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, defeated U.S. Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., in 2022. Rubio was a candidate for U.S. president in 2016 and then dropped out and won reelection to the Senate. In November 2024, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Rubio to serve as secretary of state. Rubio was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.

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Marco Rubio
stated on May 19, 2024 in an interview:

The number of people in the U.S. illegally is “upwards of 20, 25, maybe 30 million.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 11, 2024
Marco Rubio
stated on April 11, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:

“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."

By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2024
Marco Rubio
stated on March 3, 2024 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

Joe Biden's executive orders meant "for the first time in American history we have a president who will not detain the people who enter this country illegally."

By Samantha Putterman • March 8, 2024
Marco Rubio
stated on October 18, 2022 in a campaign ad:

Val Demings "voted with Pelosi to raise taxes over $4,000 on Florida families."

By Yacob Reyes • October 25, 2022
Marco Rubio
stated on September 14, 2022 in an ad:

Val Demings "voted to allow transgender youth sports and teaching radical gender identity without parental consent."

By Tom Kertscher • October 5, 2022

Val Demings
stated on March 6, 2022 in an ad:

"Marco Rubio is following his party bosses, like Rick Scott, with his plan to raise taxes on Florida's working families, retirees and veterans."

By Tom Kertscher • March 9, 2022
National Association for Gun Rights
stated on March 1, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"Marco Rubio's 'red flag' gun confiscation bill" calls for guns to be confiscated "without due process, based on unsubstantiated accusations."

By Tom Kertscher • March 4, 2021
Verified Politics
stated on December 9, 2017 in an article on a website:

Says Marco Rubio tweeted a verse from the New Testament to shame "his own constituents for flocking to Trump rally."

By Amy Sherman • December 18, 2017
Marco Rubio's heckler
stated on August 22, 2017 in during Sen. Marco Rubio's speech to Seminole County GOP:

Says Marco Rubio took "three quarters of a million dollars from fossil fuel executives" during the 2016 Senate election.

By Amy Sherman • August 29, 2017
Patrick Murphy
stated on October 10, 2016 in a TV ad:

Says Marco Rubio "opposes immigration reform. Worse, Rubio supports Donald Trump. His plan would deport 800,000 children, destroying families."

By Amy Sherman • October 17, 2016

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