Marco Rubio Makes Moves Toward A 2016 Run, ABC Reports

January 24, 2015
Miami

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By Doina Chiacu
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is scheming to launch a bid for a 2016 Republican presidential nomination, signing on a distinguished fundraiser and formulation trips to early voting states, a Rubio confidant pronounced on Friday.
Rubio has selected Anna Rogers, a financial executive for regressive organisation American Crossroads founded by former President George W. Bush confidant Karl Rove, to lead his fundraising effort, a confidant told Reuters in an email.
“We hired Rogers, will fundraise in California subsequent week and revisit early states subsequent month,” a confidant said, requesting anonymity.
Rogers will start work on Rubio’s domestic movement cabinet on Feb. 1 and turn a financial executive of his presidential campaign, a confidant said.
ABC initial reported a moves, quoting a comparison Rubio help as saying, “He has told us to ensue as if he is using for president.”
Rubio, a Cuban American whose entrance into a competition was in doubt after associate Florida Republican Jeb Bush, a son and hermit of former U.S. presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, changed toward a candidacy this month.
A Bush candidacy difficult a trail to a White House for intensity Republican rivals, including Mitt Romney, who ran unsuccessfully in 2008 and 2012. Other 2016 hopefuls competing for Republican fundraising dollars embody New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
Rubio will make a fundraising outing by California subsequent week and scheduled a book debate that will embody stops in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida, his confidant said.
Rubio is adult for re-election to a Senate in 2016. Florida does not concede possibilities to run point congressional and presidential campaigns.
The 43-year-old Rubio, who served in a Florida legislature while Bush was governor, would contest with many of a same donors in their home state.
In an coming Wednesday after a State of a Union address, Rubio pronounced Bush, with whom he is close, is a “very convincing candidate” who could lift a volume of income required to run a presidential campaign.
But he also pronounced a unfamiliar process knowledge he gained in a Senate would set him detached from a stream and former governors creation a White House bid.
Rubio was a extreme censor of President Barack Obama’s pierce final month to normalize family with Cuba.
The possibilities could strife on immigration, with Rubio carrying worked to assuage regressive Republicans mad over a unconditional immigration remodel check he helped write dual years ago. Bush, whose mother is Mexican-born, pronounced in Apr that bootleg immigrants who come to a United States to yield for their families are not committing a transgression though an “act of love.” (Editing by Susan Heavey and Chizu Nomiyama)