Marco Rubio, a former rival of Donald Trump, has been chosen as the Secretary of State. This appointment comes as a surprise to many, including foreign allies, who see Rubio's experience as a contrast to Trump's other more controversial national security picks. Rubio will face numerous challenges, including ongoing wars and geopolitical tensions with China.
Marco Rubio had been called “Little Marco” and “a choke artist” by his 2016 Republican primary rival Donald Trump , but on a debate stage in Houston the Florida Senator finally hit back. Trump was a huckster who would be “selling watches in Manhattan” if he hadn’t inherited a real estate fortune, Rubio charged. Less than a month later Rubio’s presidential bid was over. The bitterness from the bare-knuckle brawling lingered.
It’s going to take time to sort that out, and that’s going to be very messy,” said Aaron David Miller, who advised several Republican and Democratic secretaries of state and is now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Rubio was born in Miami but spent part of his childhood in Las Vegas, where his father was a bartender at a casino and his mother was a housekeeper at a hotel. Later his mother worked at a factory and also cared for her four children full-time.
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