Marco Rubio – The Republican Obama?

Published in Cyberpresse
(Canada) on 7 April 2010
by Richard Hetu (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Drue Fergison. Edited by Alex Brewer.
Marco Rubio has not yet won the Republican nomination for the Florida Senate election in November, but several of his party’s bigwigs and militants already think of him as a 2012 presidential candidate, according to this item by Ben Smith. Born in Miami of Cuban parents, the former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives collected no less than $3.6 million in the first quarter of 2010 in his campaign against Charlie Crist, the Republican governor of his state.

Even if many Republicans see in him another Barack Obama (more experienced, certainly), Rubio would only have two years, if elected in November, to prepare himself to make the leap from the Senate to the White House, rather than four — as was the case for the former Illinois Senator. Darling of the Tea Party movement, he will celebrate his 39th birthday on May 28th. I devoted this article to him a few weeks ago.


Marco Rubio n’a pas encore remporté l’investiture républicaine pour l’élection sénatoriale de Floride en novembre, mais plusieurs bonzes et militants de son parti pensent déjà à lui comme candidat présidentiel en 2012, selon ce billet de Ben Smith. Né à Miami de parents cubains, l’ancien président de la Chambre des représentants de Floride a récolté pas moins de 3,6 millions de dollars au cours du premier trimestre de 2010 pour sa campagne contre le gouverneur républicain de son État, Charlie Crist.

Même si plusieurs républicains voient en lui un autre Barack Obama (en plus expérimenté, bien sûr), Rubio n’aurait que deux ans, s’il est élu en novembre, pour se préparer à faire le saut du Sénat à la Maison-Blanche, plutôt que quatre comme ce fut le cas pour l’ancien sénateur d’Illinois. Coqueluche du mouvement Tea Party, il célébrera son 39e anniversaire de naissance le 28 mai. Je lui ai consacré cet article il y a quelques semaines.
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