Marco Rubio is on resignation watch from both sides of the Atlantic in the expectation he will quit to launch a bid to be the next US president, The Independent can reveal.
Insiders say the US secretary of state and White House national security adviser is preparing for the race to be the Republican nominee in November 2028, with JD Vance currently his main rival.
Even before the disastrous midterm results – resulting in the Republicans losing control of both the House and the Senate – senior party sources in the US and senior figures in the UK government told The Independent that Mr Rubio could quit his senior role in Donald Trump’s administration.
The sources doubled down on that expectation, after the midterms gave a damning indictment of the Trump presidency, with the Democrats seizing Republican strongholds such as Kansas and Texas.
Go ahead. Your career is over either way. Might as well get a head start on your memoirs or whatever these slobs do.
Can’t wait for the mass wave of Republicans “I knew he was bad the whole time and never supported him” history rewrite 🙂
Someone’s gonna have some big shoes to fill.
The full story of the two failed terms of donnie are going to need to have many pages to really give it the proper attention it needs.
The shit he’s been doing (so far) in this second term has just been so wild. I mean, buying shoes for other men, what even the fuck.
And now he’s going bonkers over the badonkadonks of other men…
And then on the home stretch of the midterm campaigns, he goes out to the reflecting pool and starts bragging about something that he so obviously fucked up.
I can explain the ass talk. Trump always tries to be cute near election time so he appears less scary and gets media attention. Like in 2020 when he did the YMCA fist pumps (which is gay coded btw) or in 2024 when he went to McDonalds or now when he AND JD were saying a bunch of gay shit.
Those are the hidden high heels.
B U R N!
whips racists into a frenzy, runs for president
I kinda don’t understand this one.
Rubio hasn’t been directly involved with the worse disaster, Iran, and was seemingly positioning himself to be Viceroy of South America and the Carribean, which certainly doesn’t bother Republicans. He is adhering to the traditional US policy of regime-change following the CIA playbook; he doesn’t have the staggering improvisational incompetence of Hegseth. He really hasn’t done anything “wrong” relative to the rest of this abberant administration; heck, he doesn’t even seem that pro-Israel and was the first public official to implicate Israel as the tail wagging the dog in Iran. Maybe that’s why they want to get rid of him?
He has been all in on trump, to the point of nausea. His ICE views are horrific. I think this last election has proven that r’s need a new set of people behind them. Rubio sucks ass.
so that leaves DeSatan in '28 :(
Desantis stole from medicare through his wife’s charity, I doubt he’s going to be prez.
The look on Rubio’s face during the first Zelenesky white house meeting (the “have you even said thank you?!” one) was priceless.
Rubio is the Secretary of State, he cannot escape being tied to Trump’s foreign policy disasters; foreign policy is the main job of his office.
He is 100% Israel first for rule over America. The slip of “we had to attack Iran, as our last best chance, because Israel was going to” was just normal US policy stance.
Conservatives are definitely beating the drum for Rubio now that they can see that Vance is going down with the ship. He’s been a favorite to run in 2028 for a little while now.
He is ssoooo lame and rizzless.
True. But he does have more charisma than Vance lol
A rotting turnip has more charisma than JD Vance. It’s not exactly a high bar.
Exactly. It’s not like they have very many charismatic options.
Yes, but I thought the same of donnie and the yokels fucking loooove him.
I think you misread that. He wants to resign to start his bid for president for all the reasons you just gave.
It’s more a case of rats leaving the sinking ship than them wanting to get rid of him.
Looking at it analytically: It’s probably republicans “best shot” at keeping 2028 but I think everyone on that party and admin know it’s a lame duck + uphill battle. Don’t waste a promising candidate now. Rebuild and come back later.
My personal opinion is this is awesome. If Rubio is the best they can do we’re in for another blue bloodbath. It’s also an indictment on how much everyone is done with this shit.
Resign from life, you evil leprechaun.
Ach, wee Marco, is he truly presidential material?
I remember when all the “serious” pundits in the Murc’s Law media were insistent Jeb was gonna win the 2016 primaries…and then the completely unqualified and inexperienced donnie won, so who the fuck knows who the absolutely brainless among us will end up choosing for their R candidate…I mean, at least Marco has experience and he’s not nearly as stupid as donnie. He’s a total neocon so the people on the right that supposedly profess to be against wars are going to have to square that circle.
Not that the right wing are even the least bit coherent, beyond coddling the rich and racism, xenophobia, misogyny, etc.
He’s one of the few “defeat realists” regarding Iran war, and only reliable 2nd vote for 25th amendment. Impossible to get a Zionazi crony to be the next consecutive Zionazxi secretary of state approved by Senate. But its good for Cuba/Venezuela, which seems like his only job.
