With Donald Trump’s announcement that he will tap Sen. Marco Rubio for secretary of state, the Florida Republican is poised to become America’s top diplomat in the next administration.
Rubio, a senator since 2011, is a more traditional foreign policy hawk compared with Trump — having built his political identity around support for upending autocratic governments from Latin America to the Middle East to Asia. But in recent years, Rubio’s neoconservative positions have softened, and he has increasingly aligned with Trump, who has promised to reverse what he says is a lack of respect for the United States on the global stage with his “America First” approach.
