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On the eve of the Iowa caucus, Senator Marco Rubio endorsed Donald Trump's presidential candidacy.
This makes him the second Florida senator to support the former president over his state's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.
Florida Senator Rick Scott had already endorsed Trump in early November.
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“Defeat Biden and save America”
“When Trump was in the White House, I achieved key policies I had been working on for years (like the expanded child tax credit and tough sanctions on the regime in Cuba and Venezuela) because we had a president who didn't give in to special terms,” Rubio explained on social media. interests or let bureaucrats stop us.”
He added: “I support Trump because this kind of leadership is the only way we will take the extraordinary measures necessary to fix the disaster that Biden created.” “It's time to keep working to beat Biden and save America!”
It may come as a bit of a surprise, given that Trump and Rubio are complete foreign policy opposites, but the writing appears to be on the wall for Trump's rivals.
When Rubio ran against Trump in the 2016 GOP presidential primary, the senator left the race after being defeated in the Florida primary in a race in which Trump was not exactly kind to Rubio.
Fox News reports: “During the contentious 2016 race, Trump often referred to Rubio as 'Little Marco,' while Rubio referred to Trump as a 'con artist' and said his administration would be 'messy.'
Rubio is just the latest senator to endorse Trump. The story continues:
Rubio's support comes at a time when Trump remains the favorite in the polls. He joins nearly two dozen GOP senators in endorsing Trump, including Sens. J.D. Vance of Ohio, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Rick Scott of Florida, Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt of Missouri, and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and others. .
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Trump is still the favorite
As of this writing, Trump has now fled the caucus in Iowa, where he won by 30 points over closest rival Ron DeSantis, who was followed by Nikki Haley.
DeSantis began promoting himself as a more viable Trump-like figure who could win the general election against the Democratic nominee, but he saw his poll numbers plummet and was passed over by Nikki Haley as a distant second choice.
The latest Des Moines Register/NBC News poll showed Haley at 20 percent and DeSantis at 16 percent in Iowa, while Donald Trump received 48 percent.
The final tally showed Trump 51, DeSantis 21, and Haley 19.
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