The Club of Clubs takes care of its own — but even by that standard, Marco Rubio hit a grand slam. After spending several years building relationships with his Senate colleagues, Rubio won the first Cabinet confirmation in Donald Trump’s second term. Late in the afternoon, the upper chamber gave Rubio a unanimous vote to become Secretary of State:
The Senate on Monday resoundingly confirmed colleague Sen. Marco Rubio to be President Donald Trump’s secretary of State, making him the first member of the 47th president’s cabinet to win the chamber’s backing.
The swift Senate vote, 99-0, for Rubio followed shortly after the senior senator from Florida received unanimous support, 22-0, from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which he was a member for his 14 years in the Senate. …
At his hearing last week, Rubio impressed his colleagues with…
