Marco Rubio is retiring from public life. For now.
Rubio, whose U.S. senate term ends in 2016, said that he won’t run for reelection, nor will be try to get on the Republican ticket as vice president. He’s not even going to run for governor of Florida in 2018.
“I’m going to finish out my term in the Senate, and over the next 10 months we’re going to work really hard here, and we have some things we want to achieve, and then I'll be a private citizen in January,” Rubio said in a press conference, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Rubio dropped out of the GOP primary after losing his home state of Florida to Donald Trump by double-digits. He had been heralded as the hope of the Republican party, a fresh face who was seen as capable of attracting minority voters to a party facing a demographic problem.
