The baby-faced 53-year-old was once seen as a rising star before he was crushed by Trump’s ascendancy.

After more than a week of vote counting, Trump’s party reached the 218 seats needed to retain their majority in the lower chamber, having already seized the Senate.

Trump has officially announced Sen. Marco Rubio as his pick for secretary of state.Rubio is a China hawk, has been sanctioned twice by Beijing, and may

The selection is the culmination of a long, complicated history between the two men.

The Florida-born politician would be the first Latino to serve as America's top diplomat.