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MIAMI — Marco Rubio and David Rivera charted an increase on this metropolis’s famously scrappy politics collectively.

Both sons of Cuban immigrants, they befriended one another as marketing campaign volunteers within the Nineties and climbed the ranks of native politics side-by-side. As younger state legislators, they purchased a home collectively close to the capital in Tallahassee, the place they orchestrated Rubio’s rise to Florida House Speaker after which launched successful bids to Congress.