Secretary of State Marco Rubio generated buzz about running for President among Washington, D.C., insiders.
Rubio made his intentions clear.
Marco Rubio just ended the establishment’s 2028 scheme with one sentence about JD Vance.
As American Patriot Daily reports:
The GOP establishment is desperate to yank the Republican Party back to the days of Mitt Romney and George Bush leading the charge for amnesty, globalist trade deals, and forever wars in the Middle East.
President Trump continues to praise Vice President Vance, and Vance would continue President Trump’s America First agenda on trade, immigration, and foreign policy.
That’s why Republican insiders are trying to astroturf a boomlet on social media to elevate Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who authored the 2013 Gang of 8 Amnesty bill, to the position of 2028 GOP frontrunner.
There is just one problem with this scheme.
And it’s that Rubio has no intention of playing along.
In an interview with NBC News, Rubio reaffirmed that if Vice President Vance runs for President, Rubio will immediately endorse him.
“JD Vance is a very good friend of mine. If JD runs for president, I think he’d be a phenomenal candidate. I’ve said publicly, and I’ll say it again, I’ll be the first person to sign up and support him. I think JD would do great,” Rubio stated.
Lots of people trying to drive a wedge between Rubio and Vance. Unfortunately for them, Rubio refuses to take the bait!pic.twitter.com/m8GqsREvs3
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) May 16, 2026
Polls show that GOP voters overwhelmingly favor Vance as the next nominee, as rank-and-file Republicans want to see the party continue on the course that Trump charted as opposed to returning to the establishment version that ruled the roost before 2015.
President Trump knows this as well, as he recently road-tested the idea of Vance running with Rubio as the Vice Presidential nominee during an event honoring law enforcement at Mar-a-Lago, a perspective that the audience responded favorably to.
“Who likes J.D. Vance? Who likes Marco Rubio? All right. Sounds like a good ticket. J.D. is a perfect — that was a perfect ticket,” Trump said to the crowd. “By the way, I do believe that’s a dream team. But these are minor details. That does not mean you have my endorsement under any circumstances. But you know … I think it sounds like presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate.”
Trump also polled the attendees and found that the elites in the donor class backed Rubio, but that the police officers supported Vance as the next nominee.
“The president has actually done several snap polls in recent weeks, a source familiar with the matter tells WIRED. The results have been notable, they say: When Trump polled donors at Mar-a-Lago, they favored Rubio. But when Trump recently polled a group of law enforcement officers that the White House thinks are perhaps more representative of regular voters, they favored Vance,” Wired exclusively reported.
The media is eager to play up the idea of Rubio rising because the last thing the press wants to cover is a primary where Vance romps to victory.
But with Rubio and Trump’s support, that is likely exactly what Vance is going to pull off.
