Rubio renews the ‘American dream’ – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published February 4, 2016 at 07:15 hours.
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The village is tiny, oldest, founded in 1727. There are a few thousand inhabitants living for the majority in rural wooden houses, white with green or blue shutters. A hundred of them have come here, in a gym located nearby the village to talk to Marco Rubio, the apparent favorite for the Republican nomination after the Iowa vote. One wonders why it has become so after just a third place at the Iowa caucus and in the very beginning of the campaign. There are many answers, is tenacious, is prepared, is organized, has strong financial backing, me there is one that prevails over all: it is the same as the emblem of the American dream, a dream lost in the years after the crisis, around the country, but also here in New Hampshire, which is also in the best economic conditions of other states, “the question is not whether we are in crisis, the question is what kind of future do we have? The answer is “bleak” is “dark”, Abigail Asher tells me, used in a small local bank, “Mark seems one of the few to look forward without making negative or malicious attacks like Donald Trump.”

Rubio tells his story: “my parents came to America in 1956, in New York. They did not have a penny. My father got a job in a bar. They chose America and have chosen to take root in Miami for us, for their children. My story is the same as that of many other children of immigrants who have played by the parents love and sacrifice for them study. And here, in the land of opportunity, you have found them in many including me. ” In fact, none of the other candidates in the race can claim humble origins like those of Rubio and the fact that the first generation was not only elected senator of one of the most important states, but now is running with credibility for the US Presidency of America, opens the door of optimism, one of the key ingredients behind the American force, lost optimism among a thousand quarrels and controversy. Donald Trump for example, we have seen more and here in New Hampshire Tuesday night just outside Manchester, who was also a gym but with thousands of people who flocked to hear him, is more arrogant than proactive, fills the mouth of generally well-aimed jokes, loves to attack competitors with perfidy, has even made to a reporter from the New York Times, paraplegic because he wrote things that he did not like. People flock to listen to him, like the other night, really a huge crowd, because he enjoys. But, when the chips Trump accounts is not prepared in detail, liquid questions or issues with a joke. And in Iowa was penalized because, as I said a Republican caucus in West Des Moines “is not automatic that a comedian can be fit to lead a country, of this here we realized.”

We do not know yet if this message is shared in New Hampshire. Because the effectiveness of Trump is always there throughout, including on the results from Iowa said: “Well done those of the media, you are feeling a bit ‘here their interpretation: I am not a politician, not has never campaigned, I’ll jump into the fray and finish second to the first elections. It seems all right. Instead I lost to them. Marco Rubio a professional politician, a consummate expert in election campaigns comes third, but according to their won. You media – and points the finger at us – you are detestable. ” The cheers are deafening. Then so as not to miss a beat, said yesterday that Ted Cruz has cheated: “In Iowa serious irregularities, would request a recount.” “Bad loser” they say in these parts one loses badly. Again not a value for that set of values ​​that define the Americans. But the comparison between Trump and Rubio, even at a distance, it is interesting to see the difference in quality. Trump talking about environmental attacks Barack Obama who preaches evil good and scratching: “For Christmas he left alone with his family on his old 747: know how polluted at that round-trip flight? And to do what? To go play golf for two weeks while Russia advances in Europe, China, Asia, the Isis attacks us and North Korea there is a lunatic who built the atomic bomb. ” People laugh again in adoration. But Rubio is that marks a point in the remote debate. It makes jokes, does not insult anyone, but says that instead of using the rules, to limit pollution must use technology, “Think of the progress we’ve made, think of how technological innovation has helped to overcome barriers that seemed insuperable. The rules are there to protect the old industry, we have to think about tomorrow to small companies that grow and employ …. ”

The situation in New Hampshire is not easy for Rubio. Trump is in the lead with 36% of the vote in the polls, but Cruz is 11% sprouting John Kasich of Ohio with 10.7% and Jeb Bush with 9.8%. He has only 10.7 as Kasich. For “governors” is the last chance. It is said that Bush has decided to leave if they will not make it and is working hard. Senator Paul has already announced his retirement yesterday. A Bow are eight in the morning, drizzling when Rubio arrives. It is his first stop of the day, it will go on until late at night and then start again the next day until Tuesday, February 9 the day of the primaries, the first of this election race. To meet him there are an old man, green jumpsuit, cap with the date 1959. Speaking with Senator of Florida, he asks for a confrontation between the armed forces to Eisenhower and those of today. There is also a young mother, blonde, dressed with care, with a girl of a year in his arms, asked him how do you contain the Isis terrorism. There are the African-American student worried about the loan to pay for college, the employee of a small business that asks new tax rebate for co-investments to business risk, Professor disappointed for the American educational system. For Rubio has precise answers: “Our air and naval forces are in the worst conditions ever seen. We must invest to keep up. ” For Isis wants to launch targeted attacks and criticism that Obama does not condemn openly the root of evil, the Islamic religious extremism; for companies proposing to reduce taxes; for immigration wants tighter controls, but not a wall. He is a centrist conservative candidate. And in America, in general elections are won in the center.

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