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Unidentified Man (audio): I'd like to thank everyone for coming today as this nation begins the process of electing the next president of the United States.

In his first official campaign trip since announcing his candidacy, please join me in welcoming someone who is a great leader for this country, someone who stands and represents our future, Sen. Marco Rubio.

Rubio: I'm glad to be here because I think we're--the reason why I want to run for president is because of how strongly I feel about the era in which we live in and what it can mean.

The better paying jobs of today require more education, but we have only one way of providing higher education in America, and that is we tell everybody you either go to a traditional college or you go nowhere.  That doesn't work any more.  For starters we've got to graduate more people from high school ready to go to work, to be welders, electricians, BMW technicians.  These are not bad jobs; these are good jobs.

The 21st century, this post industrial economy, has even more promise.  I don't think we can save the American Dream; I think we can expand it.

Rubio: It's really a privilege to be here.  Actually it reminds me very much of the first time I ever ran for office.  I ran for a small city commission, city of West Miami, Florida.  It has five thousand residents, about 800-900 people vote in the election and the way you get elected there is you just knock on people's doors, you do parties like this.  The only thing missing is the Cuban coffee, but you know, next time.

Rubio: I believe with all my heart that America's greatest days are right around the corner.  Now it is up to you and I to go out and seize it, to be the party of the future, to show those who are trying to improve their lives that we are the party with the ideas and the plan to get us there, and if we do these things then we will be able to leave for our children what Americans always leave for thier children: the single greatest nation in the history of all mankind.

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Notes: This video is built on footage from Rubio's April 17 trip to NH.

He talked with students at Manchester Community College on Front Street in Manchester; did a house party at the home of Jay and Jenna Pedone in Manchester; went door to door in Hampstead with Dennis Green, candidate for state representative in the April 28 special election in Rockingham District 13; and in the evening he was the keynote speaker at NHGOP's #FITN Republican Leadership Summit dinner in Nashua.  He also made a stop at the Union Leader.   

Notice the imagery of Rubio in the classroom.  He co-teaches a political science class at Florida International University, as featured in several articles earlier this year. (1, 2). 

Compare to another on-the-road-in-New Hampshire video from Rick Perry.

The campaign highlighted the video in a fundraising email:

I just looked at Marco’s May schedule and it’s filled with fundraisers. That’s because it takes a lot of money to run for president, but the truth is, I would much rather have him campaigning in the early states, like New Hampshire.

Earlier this morning, Marco shared this video of highlights from his first trip as a candidate to New Hampshire:

When you donate online, you’ll directly support Marco’s critical, early state travel not only by funding the trips, but by making sure we have him on the trail, speaking to voters instead of flying around the country attending fundraisers.

Click here to give now and help Marco return to New Hampshire and other key states.

Terry Sullivan
Campaign Manager

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