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In Northeast Florida, Marco Rubio campaign is a family affair

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The loneliness of live phone call voter contact, via phone banks, cannot be underestimated. Keeping the spirits of volunteers up can be a heavy lift, and at theย Marco Rubio headquarters in Jacksonville, on Saturday, around 20 motivated callers went through the script. Not every response was a positive one, as a twentysomething named Stephanie said. “I’ve gotten a lot of machines,” Stephanie said. “Either they’ve voted and they don’t want to disclose, or they don’t want to talk,” she said…

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Mario Rubio’s brother joins him to campaign on veterans’ issues

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Marco Rubio is using a real-life example to talk about his commitment to the Department of Veterans Affairs: his big brother. The Republican presidential candidate and Florida senator will appear in Iowa Thursday with his brother Mario, an Army veteran. It’ll be his first time on the 2016 campaign trail for Mario Rubio. Marco Rubio will offer his plans to reform a system plagued by long delays for those seeking care and allegations of falsified records, according to his prepared…

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