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“The great thing about our party is we have this great new generation of leaders ready to take the mantle,” Marco Rubio said. | AP Photo Nikki Haley: Conservatives taking over America look 'like a Benetton commercial’

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Marco Rubio sure is reveling is his latest South Carolina endorsements — and the diverse and generational contrast it provides his candidacy.

One by one, Rubio (44 and Cuban-American) summoned them on stage to close a rally at a Crossfit studio in Greenville: Rep. Trey Gowdy (51 and white), Sen. Tim Scott (50 and African-American) and Gov. Nikki Haley (44 and Indian-American).

“The great thing about our party is we have this great new generation of leaders ready to take the mantle,” Rubio declared. “We are prepared to turn the page and move forward.”

The rally appeared over, as all four politicians waved to a bank of television cameras. But Haley, whose endorsement of Rubio on Wednesday has given his campaign a big boost days before Saturday’s primary, put a punctuation mark on the event.

“Take of picture of this,” she instructed the crowd and the cameras. “Because this new group of conservatives taking over America looks like a Benetton commercial.”