Marco Rubio tested by the company he keeps
Marco Rubio, left, and David Rivera. (Steve Cannon/Post)
The senator’s quest for the GOP presidential nomination could be threatened by troubles of his longtime confidant: David Rivera, a fellow South Floridian who won a U.S. House seat in 2010, the year of Rubio’s come-from-behind Senate victory, but has since left politics under an ethics cloud.
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