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Marco Rubio: “Our competition is not Mississippi or Alabama. Our…”

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From running for president to raising four children to just daily life and the world has changed. But I recall very clearly in the mid 2000s in the Florida legislature openly saying, Our competition is not Mississippi or Alabama. Our competition is India and China. meaning education and what we were teaching our kids and curriculum reform to step up to the fact that we were now engaged in global competition with other countries for the best jobs, technologies and the like. (11:53–11:58)

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Asserts that the U.S. is in global competition with countries like India and China, not just other U.S. states.

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