Rising stars of Republican party who defied Iowa pollsters are being likened to another young senator in a hurry – Barack ObamaTwo Cuban American senators representing the future of US conservatism are now locked in a battle to reshape the Republican primary and attempt to do history as the first Latino president of the US. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio,from Texas and Florida respectively, both defied expectations in the Iowa caucuses on Monday. The two first-term senators, or long viewed as rising stars within the GOP,had been jockeying for weeks to claim the mantle of the party’s alternative to Donald Trump.
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Source: theguardian.com