Carlos Beruff

Carlos Beruff can pinpoint the day when the bottom fell out from under his real estate business.“It was the Friday before Labor Day of 1991,” he said with a laugh. “The bank called me up and said ‘We’re not giving you any more money.’”

Republican U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate Marco Rubio had been looking forward to his speech at the Republican National Convention for a long time. He just didn’t expect to be encouraging Republicans to vote for Donald J. Trump.

With Republican millionaire and ex-CIA officer Todd Wilcox now out of Florida's GOP race for U.S. Senate, just two candidates are left vying for the highly contested seat: businessman Carlos Beruff and incumbent Marco Rubio means for the race.