A group of Republican donors have been secretly plotting to boost Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s prospects of challenging Vice President JD Vance for the party’s 2028 presidential nomination.
Vance remains widely seen as Donald Trump’s most likely successor heading into the next election in 2028—assuming the president does not himself decide to buck almost a century of constitutional history by running for a third term.
But behind closed doors, the president has lately admired how “popular” and “loved” he thinks Rubio has become as “the greatest secretary of state in history,” ABC News reports, citing multiple sources familiar with Trump’s thinking.
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