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Marco Rubio and Chris Christie vow war on marijuana if they take White House

'We need to send very clear leadership from the White House on down through the federal law enforcement,' Christie said. 'And the states should not be permitted to sell it and profit from it.'




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Marco Rubio claims people are 'born with a sexual preference'

The Florida Senator spoke to CBS's Face the Nation after admitting in an interview he would attend the same-sex wedding of a family member or staffer - even if he didn't agree with the decision.




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Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush tensions rise as White House race heats up

The pair have been political allies for more than a decade but those close to Bush have started quietly spreading negative information about Rubio's record.




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Marco Rubio's foreign policy will see a return to the nation's 'core values'

GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio will lay out his foreign policy vision in a speech this afternoon at a forum hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations.




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Marco Rubio to enter presidential race at Freedom Tower, a historic Cuban immigration site

Monday's site is where the US processed Cuban exiles who fled Castro's communist regime. Rubio was accused of embellishing his parents' story to make it seem like they were among them.




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Marco Rubio enters 2016 presidential bid and takes swipe at Hillary Clinton

At Miami's Freedom Tower, known as the 'Ellis Island of the South,' the 43-year-old Floridian proclaimed that he's all-in for 2016, joining fellow Republicans Ted Cruz and Rand Paul in the contest.




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Presidential candidate Marco Rubio 'always tips' at Chipotle 

Rubio was spotted at a Washington, D.C. Chipotle, located just steps from the Capitol, this week, furthering the trend that started Monday with Hillary Clinton - who did not tip.




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Marco Rubio and wife Jeannette have 17 combined traffic citations in last 15 years

Jeanette Rubio is responsible for 13 of the citations, and four belong to the Republican presidential candidate. The Florida couple has agreed to attend remedial driving school four different times.




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Marco Rubio at Iowa State Fair as his family get giddy over Carrie Underwood

The Florida Senator tossed around a pig skin with his sons Dominic and Anthony and other children in a Des Moines suburb this evening. Tomorrow he's taking his family to the fair.




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Marco Rubio hits Iowa boy in the face with a football

The presidential hopeful was playing catch with his sons and a few Iowans between pork chops at a picnic on Monday night when he let the pigskin slip.




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Marco Rubio calls Vladimir Putin a 'gangster' and Kim Jong Un a 'lunatic'

In a speech on foreign policy in South Carolina on Friday, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio questioned the totalitarian regimes around the world.




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Marco Rubio told to cancel his Yom Kippur fundraiser because of Hitler art

Republican White House hopeful Marco Rubio is facing demands to call off a fundraiser at the Highland Park, TX, home of developer Harlan Crow because of its collection of Nazi memorabilia.




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Marco Rubio sides with BILL CLINTON on family and medical leave

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida on Friday embraced the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act and called for expanding it through tax credits to businesses that offer paid leave.




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Donald Trump still on top in New Hampshire but Marco Rubio surges

Donald Trump still leads among Republican presidential candidates, but he is now challenged by Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio while Bernie Sanders widely leads Hillary Clinton.




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Religious right crowd erupts in boos when Trump attacks Marco Rubio as a 'clown' and says 'nobody's weaker' on immigration – but he saves the day by holding up his Bible and defending CHRISTMAS

'You have this clown, Marco Rubio. I've been so nice to him!' Trump said, as boos swallowed the room. He also hammered the truant lawmaker for his record of absences in the Senate.




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Marco Rubio blasts Donald Trump as he insists he won't be 'part of his freak show'

'He is a very sensitive person. He doesn't like to be criticized. He responds to criticism very poorly,' Rubio told NPR, after Trump hammered him as 'a kid' who 'shouldn't even be running in this race.'




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Marco Rubiosurges into second place and is the new anti-Trump

A poll from The Economist and YouGov has the Florida senator pushing past Ben Carson and becoming the first mainstream candidate to threaten Trump's GOP primary dominance.




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Marco Rubio blasts Vladimir Putin and vows to assist Ukraine if he's elected president

GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Friday blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin as 'a gangster and a thug,' and vowed to take a hard line against him if he reaches the Oval Office.




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Donald Trump hits highest poll number yet as Ben Carson and Marco Rubio make small gains

New York businessman Donald Trump remains the front-runner in the Republican presidential race, while Ben Carson has solidified his hold on second place.




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Marco Rubio blasts Veterans Administration employees for not coming to work

Sen. Marco Rubio, who has the worst attendance record in the US Senate, proposed a bill on Tuesday to authorize the firing of delinquent Veterans Administration employees




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Marco Rubio marks 'Back to the Future day' with video slamming Hillary Clinton

Marco Rubio doesn't want the country to go back in time when picking its next president. To mark 'Back to the Future Day' Rubio's campaign put out an ad calling Hillary Clinton 'a 'blast from the past.'




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PaddyPower gives BOTH Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush better odds to win nomination

Odds makers are giving both Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush better odds to win the Republican nomination than the current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.




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Marco Rubio's billionnaire donor Paul Singer wants him to work harder

Playing it small and safe may not cut it for someone who has the potential to be one of Marco Rubio's biggest donors. Billionaire Paul Singer is wondering whether Rubio can pull off a national campaign.




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Marco Rubio defends Senate voting absences as Barack Obama's record was worse

Obama missed 89.4 of his votes in the last quarter of 2007 while he was a U.S. senator running for president. Rubio has skipped 44.6 per cent since June, the month he launched his own bid.




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CNBC's Republican debate off the rails as Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio go to war

CNBC's hosts progressively lost control of Wednesday night's event as the GOP field hammered them for asking inaccurate questions and tryign to turn Republican against Republican.




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Marco Rubio on the rack over secrets of party credit card he used for family trip

Marco Rubio effectively swatted down questions about his personal finances during last week's presidential debate. His bookkeeping is now the subject of a new review, though.




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Marco Rubio's campaign releases two years of American Express statements

As Marco Rubio's stock rises among Republican primary voters, the Florida senator is trying to show that his finances are clean as a whistle. Yesterday Rubio released two years of American Express bills.




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Seators Rand Paul and Marco Rubio go head-to-head on military spending

U.S. senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky went into a head-to-head skirmish halfway through Tuesday night's Republican debate over military spending.




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Marco Rubio's first campaign ad slams ISIS terrorists

'These aren’t disgruntled or dis-empowered people,' he says of the murderers who killed nearly 130 in Paris and allegedly brought down a Russian plane in October. 'These are radical terrorists who want to kill us.'




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Marco Rubio joins the air war with $20 million buy

Marco Rubio's campaign released its first early state television ad this morning and it's the candidate's father who's front and center through the spot, which is the campaign's first $20 ad buy.




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Marco Rubio wants the Secret Service keeping an eye on his teenage daughters

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio on Thursday said he has considered life as a presidential father - and likes the idea of the Secret Service watching over his two teenage daughters




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Marco Rubio scolds Donald Trump in speech to Jewish lobby

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio on Thursday took a subtle swipe at front-runner Donald Trump, by declaring that thorny relations between Is 'not a real estate deal'




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Now it's Marco Rubio versus Ted Cruz as the gloves come off in White House

Marco Rubio is purposely smacking around Ted Cruz, as the two U.S. senators are rising above the other traditional politicos in the crowded Republican pack, which Donald Trump still leads.




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REVEALED: Marco Rubio's brother-in-law was the 'front man for an international drug-smuggling ring led by leopard-loving cocaine cowboy kingpin whose mansion was filled with big cats and a giraffe'

Orlando Cicilia was arrested for his part in the illicit operation in 1987 during Miami's narcotics heyday when Republican presidential hopeful Rubio was just 16.




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Marco Rubio wallops Barack Obama on global warming and ISIS fight

Will the real Marco Rubio please stand up? Political no-man's land has left the Florida senator with few options other than running directly at Obama and throwing few stones inside his own party.




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Sarah Palin loves Donald Trump and Ted Cruz but thinks Marco Rubio is 'robotic'  

Gov. Sarah Palin refused to pick between her darlings – Donald Trump and Ted Cruz – at a Republican debate night eve Q&A with CNN's Jake Tapper.




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Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz bicker over NSA at Las Vegas GOP debate 2015

Rising Republicans Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz briefly bickered with one another over the NSA's bulk collection of metadata in the early moments of tonight's Republican debate.




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GOP debate sees Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz tustle over plans to 'legalize' illegal immigrants

Rubio, pictured, supports a mechanism to allow illegal residents to stay in the country long-term. He's said Cruz's position is 'not much different.' Cruz has likewise accused him of backing amnesty.




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Rand Paul fusses at Marco Rubio for skipping so many Senate votes: 'he ought to resign or give his pay back to the taxpayer'

Rand Paul became the latest Republican to criticize Marco Rubio for skipping Senate votes as he pursues the presidency, suggesting the Florida senator resign or give back his paycheck.




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Marco Rubio says Donald Trump shouldn't be honored by Vladimir Putin's praise

Last week the Russian president called the GOP front-runner a 'very outstanding' and 'unquestionably talented' man who was the 'absolute leader of the presidential race.'




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Marco Rubio calls MSNBC's Joe Scarborough elitist

Marco Rubio's campaign says the candidate's latest ad has struck a chord with American voters and that's why 'elitist members of the media' like MSNBC's Joe Scarborough aren't liking it.




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Donald Trump rips Trey Gowdy as a 'Benghazi loser' over Marco Rubio endorsement

Donald Trump is bashing Marco Rubio's new high-profile supporter, Congressman Trey Gowdy, calling Gowdy a 'loser' for the hearings he led that were supposed to wound Hillary Clinton.




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Marco Rubio supports 'convention of states' to amend US Constitution

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio on Wednesday came out for a 'convention of states' proposal to make it easier to amend the U.S. Constitution.




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How Marco Rubio helped his drug-dealing brother-in-law get a real estate licence

While serving in the Florida House of Representatives in 2002, Rubio wrote to regulators on statehouse stationary recommending brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia for a real estate licence.




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Marco Rubio says Hillary Clinton 'lied to our faces' about Benghazi

'She lied to our faces. No one in the mainstream media has the courage to call her out for it. If I am our nominee, voters will be reminded of it time and time again,' Rubio pledged in New Hampshire.




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Hillary Clinton would 'carve Marco Rubio's heart out' warns Chris Christie

Surging Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie attacked top-tier rival Marco Rubio on Wednesday over his fitness to challenge likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.




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Marco Rubio mocks Sean Penn for 'fawning' over El Chapo in 10,000-word article

The Republican presidential hopeful applauded Mexican marines for detaining the fugitive cartel leader, but he mocked Penn's involvement in the bizarre stitch-up.




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Marco Rubio accuses Chris Christie of donating to Planned Parenthood 

Whether or not Chris Christie donated money to Planned Parenthood is becoming a he said, he said between the New Jersey governor and GOP rival, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.




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Marco Rubio is mocked on Twitter for looking bored during Obama’s State of the Union

The Florida Senator and presidential hopeful looked heavy-eyed and sleepy as he listened to President Barack Obama as he delivered his final State of the Union address to Congress.




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Donald Trump may be the only 'natural-born citizen' as Marco Rubio's 'birther' problem emerges

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio may soon be the new target of critics who contend he is not a U.S. citizen and therefore ineligible for the presidency.