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.
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.