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1st LD: Republican Senator Marco Rubio announces bid for U.S. presidential race

Xinhua, April 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Republican Senator Marco Rubio from the state of Florida announced his decision Monday evening to enter the 2016 U.S. presidential race.

"I announce my candidacy to the presidency," said the 43-year- old Senator from Freedom Tower in the city of Miami, Florida.

"Yesterday is over. And we are never going back," Rubio said in front of a banner with the slogan "A New American Century."

Earlier Monday, Rubio told top donors in a conference call that he is running for the U.S. president, saying that he feels " uniquely qualified" to be president and criticized Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as "a letter from yesterday. " Endite