Ashley Moody, a Republican, would take the seat of Senator Marco Rubio once he is confirmed as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s secretary of state.

Jeanette Rubio met her husband while they were in high school in Florida and she is seen as a guiding force in his life.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is receiving a warm welcome at his confirmation hearing to become secretary of State.

Rubio and Trump have put aside past acrimony to make the Florida lawmaker the least controversial in an unusual slate of ...