Washington:
US President-elect Donald Trump is predicted to call Florida Senator Marco Rubio as secretary of state, The New York Occasions reported Monday night time. It quoted three individuals as saying that the choice will not be ultimate, however that Trump seems to have settled on Rubio, a loyalist whom Trump handed over as his vice presidential operating mate.
Rubio has been persistently named during the last week as one of many frontrunners to go US diplomacy, together with the abrasive former ambassador to Germany, Ric Grenell.
Requested if he was destined for a senior cupboard job, Rubio instructed CNN final week, “I all the time am focused on serving this nation.”
The nomination of the hawkish congressman, who has Cuban heritage, would cap a outstanding turnaround in his relations with Trump.
In 2016, after they have been competing for the Republican presidential nomination, Rubio known as Trump a “con artist” and the “most vulgar particular person to ever aspire to the presidency.”
Born to Cuban immigrants in Miami, he graduated with a political science diploma from the College of Florida in 1993.
He was elected to the US Senate in 2010 along with his marketing campaign buoyed by the Tea Occasion, a far-right contingent of Republicans that coalesced within the aftermath of Barack Obama’s election as president.
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