Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who's been campaigning with Mitt Romney, continued to raise his national profile this week, delivering a major foreign policy speech that was interpreted as a tryout for the vice presidential spot on the Romney ticket. Rubio is unquestionably a rising star on the Right. In 2010, he became a capital-N "name" with a landslide victory in Florida's Senate race, literally chasing the once-popular former Gov. Charlie Crist out of the party. (Crist, worried about losing a GOP primary to Rubio, ran as an independent, and got crushed.) So who exactly is this Tea Party-backed freshman senator from Florida? Here, eight things you might not know about him:

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