Miami NBC's Profile of Marco Rubio

tonight here's a look at Republican candidate Marco Rubio thirty nine year old Marco Rubio is living the American dream he's

a smart charismatic attorney who's married to a former dolphins cheerleader and has four kids he also happens to be running for US Senate I'm

grateful to my parents was a young man will be always one of four children born to Cuban immigrants his parents came to this country in nineteen fifty nine Marco

was born in Miami growing up in a few household is like a our family wide endeavor I mean you're not just being raised by your parents your grandparents your aunts your uncles or cousins his

father got a job bartending in Los Vegas so the Rubio family packed up and moved to Nevada when Marco was a his

mother also worked as a hotel housekeeper he says his parents sacrificed everything to give their family a better life something

he refuses to forget we weren't rich who are privileged you know my parents were working class sometimes

for two jobs but I think the most important thing they offered us was they encouraged us to dream and and and

and to pursue our dreams and and helped us to understand our whole life that we would have the chance to do things they never have the chance to do the

family would ultimately move back to Miami in nineteen eighty five Rubio attended south Miami high school went

Rubio went on to represent west Miami but made a name for himself as speaker of the house in two thousand and six in

may of two thousand and nine Rubio announced his plans to run for the U. S. Senate seat vacated by Mel Martinez many

believed he could never get the Republican nomination from the popular governor it made a name for himself as speaker of the house in two thousand and six in

may of two thousand and nine Rubio announced his plans to run for the U. S. Senate seat vacated by Mel Martinez many

believed he could never get the Republican nomination from the popular governor if I had paid attention to the polls I never would have gotten into the race but I was like thirty five points down in the first guy and it

governor Chris to run as an independent this race is about the future of our country and and then what I hoped would be the

competition of competing views and visions about America's future Rubio who lost his father just over a month ago refers

for my that was not the profession that I chose but the fact that I got to do what I love for a living and for my life in that that I got an opportunity to pursue my dreams and hopes think

is it I mean I want to run for the US Senate I want to serve in the U. S. Senate for a period of time that I want to come back home and live

under the laws we pass them and be successful at something else for now November second is the challenge at hand we

feel very confident about what we stand for you know win or lose and I believe but when I lose all the prior to the race that we ran because it was based on for

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