The file

Marco Rubio

Republican · U.S. Secretary of State · Florida · Spectrum score +53

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Marco Rubio is U.S. Secretary of State in Florida. Political positions and ideology score +53 (Right). Rubio’s origin story is the overdrawn Republican.

College: University of Florida, B.A. 1993 · University of Miami School of Law, J.D. 1996
Spouse: Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio (m. 1998)
Children: Four
Résumé: U.S. Secretary of State · 2025–
U.S. Senator · Florida · 2011–2025
Speaker · Florida House of Representatives · 2006–2008

Net worth: $2.4M
Salary: $253,100
Before office: $200K
2026 raised: —
Years in office: 26

Where Marco stands on the spectrum

Marco Rubio scores +53 on Spectrum’s left–right line (right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +53 · Right · economic +45 · social +48 · authoritarian +29

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Rubio’s origin story is the overdrawn Republican. The file is a man who learned the donor circuit, took State, and now sits on Latin America policy with the same Miami money that funded the Senate career. Not a secret; just not a Sunday-show topic.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$2.4M

+1100% since taking office

Disclosure midpoint, 2025

Before office$200K

Now$2.4M

The foreclosure-and-credit-card years were real. The Senate, a PAC, and the 2016/2024 runs professionalized the household. Secretary of State is a new conflict surface, not a new fortune.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $0
Cash on hand: $0

Top industries

PACs
Florida developers
Cuban-American donors

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

State/OGE. Not a trader. The foreclosure years were real; the PAC is the lifestyle now.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$50K–$250K
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$15K–$75K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$50K–$250K
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$15K–$75K

Sum of ranges $65K–$325K · midpoint $195K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

Florida real-estate donors vs a State Department that still touches Western Hemisphere policy.
Leadership PAC as a lifestyle subsidy — legal, rarely advertised.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +45
Social: +48
Authoritarian: +29
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+54
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+42
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+48
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+44
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+34
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+54
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+48
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+56
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+50
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+46
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+74
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+30
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.58

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

Senate NOMINATE
State Department 2025–26
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.