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.
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.