How Long Can Marco Rubio Keep This Up?

Nine days before Christmas in 1987, federal drug agents descended on a modest one-acre property in West Miami. Their target was a drug dealer named Orlando Cicilia, whom they arrested and charged with selling and distributing millions of dollars of Colombian cocaine. The raid against Mr. Cicilia and his associates would prove to be one of the biggest drug busts in Florida history. In retrospect, it was notable for one other fact: Mr. Cicilia was Marco Rubio’s brother-in-law.

Some of Mr. Rubio’s most vivid early experiences took place in the house where Mr. Cicilia was arrested. Mr. Rubio’s “fondest childhood memory” was of a Christmas Eve party where Mr. Cicilia roasted a pig in a pit covered with palm fronds in the yard of the house, according to Mr. Rubio’s memoir. Later, when Mr. Rubio........

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