Scott Lucas

But so does Vice President J.D.

Vance.

He'd like to be president as well.

and that politics intersects with iran in a very interesting way at the very start of this war both vance and rubio kept relatively low profiles at least publicly vance let it be known through his allies his staff that he was opposed to this war rubio

just didn't say very much at all and focused, for example, on issues like Venezuela, where, of course, the United States is trying to exert dominance, and then Cuba, where it might be threatening military action in the near future.

But that has changed in recent weeks.

Vance had to put his head up above the parapet last month for the first and only set of talks with the Iranians, which took place in Pakistan.

But then he sort of retreated.

Rubio, since then, has been on the ascendant in terms of being in public view.

So when he's been traveling with his duties as Secretary of State, he was in India this week, for example, he's taking questions from the press about the state of the Iran negotiations.

And he's the one that's putting out the line, maybe we have a deal soon, maybe, maybe not quite yet, etc., etc.

Rubio's gamble here is, is that by taking more of a public profile, he'll look like the guy who helped get the U.S.

out of this mess.

The downside of that course is if the U.S.

doesn't get out of this mess, then he's going to carry some of the cost.

So Marco Rubio is the son of parents who came from Cuba in 1956, just before the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.

He is part of that very large Cuban-American population in Miami, in Florida, and he decides on a political and legal career.

So, you know, by the late 1990s, when he's in his 20s, he's serving as an intern to very powerful legislators and working on, for example, the presidential campaign of Bob Dole.

He uses that as a springboard to get into the Florida legislature, where he's there for almost a decade.

He becomes one of the youngest speakers of the Florida House in history.