Rubio criss-crosses Iowa, picks up key endorsements

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Marco Rubio picked up key endorsements from some of Iowa's larger newspapers and appeared Monday with the state's freshman U.S. senator, Republican Joni Ernst. "He knows what it is to keep our country safe from the threats that are out there," Ernst, an Iraq War veteran, said of her 44-year-old Senate colleague. She called him "near and dear to my heart."

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Marco Rubio picked up key endorsements from some of Iowa's larger newspapers and appeared Monday with the state's freshman U.S. senator, Republican Joni Ernst. "He knows what it is to keep our country safe from the threats that are out there," Ernst, an Iraq War veteran, said of her 44-year-old Senate colleague. She called him "near and dear to my heart."…