BREAKING...Marco Rubio announces presidential campaign in United States

1. Marco Rubio ‏@marcorubio now

   My father stood behind a small portable bar in the back of a room...so that tonight I could stand behind this podium in front of this room...I am watching it now on CNN...hehehehe..calls Clinton a leader from yesterday

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2. Marco Rubio ‏@marcorubio 39s39 seconds ago

   When I was younger, I didn't fully appreciate all he did for us, but now as my own children grow older, I fully understand.

   
   

   This election is not just about what laws we will pass. It is a generational choice about what kind of country we will be.

   
   Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the son of Cuban immigrants whose rapid political ascent was nearly blocked five years ago by national Republican leaders, will formally launch his campaign for president Monday evening in his hometown of Miami.
   Rubio, the junior senator from Florida, will make the announcement in front of the city’s Freedom Tower, an iconic, Ellis Island-like downtown landmark where the federal government once processed Cuban immigrants fleeing the Castro regime. The site holds great personal importance for Rubio, his family and the city's influential  Cuban-American community.
   The announcement is expected to launch Rubio near the top of a crowded field of GOP presidential candidates even as recent polls have suggested that he will have to compete for support among other frontrunners, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.).
   In recent weeks, Rubio has done little overt campaigning and has avoided joining the early fray, focusing instead on holding a handful of discreet fundraisers in New York, California, Texas, Illinois and Washington while consulting his family and close circle of advisers ahead of a formal launch.
   But soon, he is expected to launch a tour of early primary states. After his announcement on Monday, he'll return to Capitol Hill on Tuesday. On Thursday he'll travel to Boston for a fundraiser, before traveling to New Hampshire on Friday to join other GOP presidential candidates at a Republican summit, in Nashua, N.H.
   Rubio is one of four Republican senators expected to run for president. Cruz launched his campaign last month; Paul jumped in last week. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) has already established a formal exploratory committee and is hiring staffers in early primary states.
   Like Cruz and Paul, Rubio, 43, is a younger first-term senator who won his seat with the help of grassroots, tea party-inspired support. With Cruz and Rubio in the race, Republicans will have their choice of two Cuban-Americans whose parents fled the oppressive Castro regime running for president.