Neither Marco Rubio nor Jeb Bush is willing to cede an inch of Florida territory to the other.
Speaking just five days after Bush's presidential announcement, Rubio showed Saturday night with a speech to a hometown crowd why Florida's presidential primary may be a close contest — and critical in deciding who wins the Republican presidential nomination.
Rubio told almost 750 party faithful at the Miami-Dade Republican Party's Lincoln Day dinner that he had "no intention of running for president with the desire of tearing anyone down," then took a couple of jabs at Bush.
When he was speaker of the Florida House, Rubio said, "we still improved our schools without Common Core.