From Jeremy W. Peters and Ashley Parker writing at the New York Times:
In the nearly three months since he announced that he was running for president, Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)." href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/14/us/elections/marco-rubio.html?inline=nyt-per">Marco Rubio has been enjoying his moment. Republicans have talked up his potential. Democrats have called him a threat. He has been in the top tier of many polls.
But one of the biggest measures of his success — whether he impresses Republican donors as much as he does the party’s leading operatives and opinion shapers — has been harder to discern.
Mr. Rubio has a notable disadvantage in the congested, fragmented field of Republican candidates: He has no natural national base of support to draw on, the way Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) does with evangelical Christians or Senator Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) does with libertarians.
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