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Is Marco Rubio the new face of the old GOP?

Hello again, I'm Arunalmi, and this is a special edition of To the Point, a profile of Marco

Rubio, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

He's a 44-year-old senator in his first term who insists he is fully prepared

for the White House. The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of

leadership. We'll hear about the meteoric rise of a Cuban American in Florida, his brief

term in Washington, and what happened between him and Jeb Bush. Some Republicans call him

their parties Obama, and they don't mean it kindly. Others call him their best chance of

heading off Donald Trump. Today's talking point, big money corrupts big-time politics. What about

small money? First, here's the news.

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International Program Fund. Hello again, Warman Alney, back with a special edition of

To the Point, a profile of Florida's first-term Senator Marco Rubio. Is he the new face of the old

GOP? In 1998, he was a city commissioner in West Miami. In 2000, he was elected to Florida's House of

Representatives. Just six years after that, he became the second youngest House Speaker ever and the first Cuban-American to hold that position.

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