Marco Rubio presidential campaign, 2016 declared he was running for president approximately three weeks after this fellow republican who has served  as the junior United States Senator from Texas since what year
Marco Rubio presidential campaign, 2016 The 2016 presidential campaign of Marco Rubio, the junior United States Senator from Florida, and former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, was formally announced on April 13, 2015, at an event at the Freedom Tower in Downtown Miami. Early polling showed Rubio, who was considered a potential candidate for Vice President by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, as a frontrunner candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2016 since at least the end of the 2012 election. Rubio was the second Cuban American to run for President of the United States, declaring approximately three weeks after fellow Republican Ted Cruz. He suspended his campaign on March 15, 2016, after finishing second in the primary for Florida, his home state. Turning 45 in 2016, Rubio would've been the third youngest president to take office, the others being Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, who took office at ages 42 and 43 respectively. Rubio would've also been the first president of Latin American culture, as he was born to Cuban parents, as well as the first Florida native to become president.
Kevin Eltife is an American businessman and former politician from Tyler, Texas. A Republican, served in the Texas Senate from 2004 through 2017. He was sworn in on March 5, 2004, after winning a special election to represent District 1. He declined to seek re-election in 2016 and was succeeded in office by fellow Republican Bryan Hughes.