Florida senator who ran for Republican nomination in 2016 has since backed Trump
The Florida senator was swarmed by donors at a Republican event at Mar-a-Lago last week during which Mr Trump tried to gauge his audience’s reaction to a list of potential running mates, said people who attended.
Mr Rubio is the latest high-profile Republican, alongside fellow US senators and JD Vance and Tim Scott, to gain favour among Trump allies – although if selected as the running mate he would have to move from Florida to satisfy a constitutional requirement that the president and vice-president live in different states.
Deep-pocketed potential running mates, including North Dakota’s governor Doug Burgum, the libertarian entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and investor Rick Scott, would bring their own money to the ticket. Mr Rubio and Tim Scott, a South Carolina senator, have strong ties to conservative megadonors. Pauline Ng Lee, a Nevada Republican who will co-host a Trump fundraiser in June, said Mr Rubio or Mr Scott would “pull in a greater, wider array of Republicans and nonpartisans – and even some moderate Democrats”.
“He raises a lot of money,” said Mr Helberg of Rubio. “He obviously has spent years building relationships with the American Latino community, which matters a lot in politics.” Among women floated by donors as potential running mates are congresswoman Elise Stefanik and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Arkansas governor who served as Mr Trump’s White House spokeswoman.
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