ALERT: “Unbeatable”… Trump applauds the idea of a Vance-Rubio ticket for the 2028 presidential election
International Briefing:
Governments, analysts, and media outlets are continuing to follow this situation closely as additional details become available.
The American president is already starting to prepare his succession behind the scenes. Donald Trump declared in a podcast broadcast on Wednesday that a joint candidacy of Vice-President JD Vance and the head of diplomacy Marco Rubio would be “unbeatable” for the 2028 American presidential election, while a possible duel between the two men for the White House is looming. So far, neither JD Vance nor Marco Rubio has openly declared their interest in succeeding Donald Trump by running in the next presidential election. But two years before the primaries for the Republican presidential nomination, a question comes back naggingly on the right: who will take up the torch? “I don’t know how we could beat them” The vice-president and the head of American diplomacy are widely seen as serious contenders, and as rivals. “They are both excellent. I like them both,” Donald Trump said in a New York Post podcast broadcast on Wednesday, without risking specifying which of the two would be at the top of the ticket, that is to say running for president. “I don’t know how we could beat them if they teamed up,” he said, adding that the two men “get along very well.” However, a duel begins to take shape. JD Vance, by virtue of his position, is more closely associated with the record of the current head of state. However, Donald Trump’s popularity rating is declining, weighed down in particular by the war in Iran. “I will be one of the first to support him.” The vice-president tried to distance himself from this conflict without breaking with the unpredictable president, a politically perilous exercise, and which is not necessarily very readable for voters. For his part, the secretary of state, replacing for one day the spokesperson for the American executive Karoline Leavitt on leave maternity, made a notable appearance in the press room at the beginning of May which attracted praise from Republicans, hailing a performance punctuated with witticisms. Marco Rubio, however, assured in December 2025 in an interview with Vanity Fair that he would not stand in the way of the vice-president in the event of a presidential candidacy. “If JD Vance runs for president, he will be our candidate and I will be one of the first to support him,” he said.
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Source: This article was originally published by 20Minutes – Actu Monde and adapted for our international English-speaking audience.
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