Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised Vice President JD Vance in a recent interview, but stopped short of ruling out a 2028 presidential bid.
Vance is widely speculated to be the favorite for the next Republican presidential nomination.
Rubio discussed the 2028 election during an interview with Fox News’ “My View With Lara Trump,” over the weekend.
The president’s daughter-in-law asked Rubio if he had “sights set outside of the State Department.”
“Well, I think JD Vance would be a great nominee. If he decides he wants to do that. I think he’s doing a great job as Vice President. He’s a close friend and I hope he intends to do it,” Rubio said.
Rubio continued, “It’s kind of early, you know, but being in the role that I’m in here at the Secretary of State, I really don’t play in politics. There’s actually rules against me being involved in domestic politics.”
“I want to do this job as long as the president allows me to do it and stay in that job, which would keep me here all the way through January of 2028,” Rubio said. “You never know what the future holds. You never rule things out or anything.”
Rubio previously ran for president in 2016, losing the nomination to President Donald Trump. He also discussed what it was like running against such a massive personality.
“I knew who he was, obviously, but I’d never met him,” Rubio said of the president, who had nicknamed him “Little Marco” during the primaries. “We happened to be competing for the same thing. So in any competition, especially as you get down and it narrows down to three or four people, you know, punches are going to be thrown.”
Rubio continued, “But then that ends, and then we’re on the same team because he’s a Republican nominee and I’m a Republican.”
In addition to serving as Secretary of State, Rubio has taken on the unprecedented dual responsibility of acting national security adviser, making him the first person since Henry Kissinger to hold both positions simultaneously, while also overseeing USAID and the National Archives and Records Administration.
WATCH:
BREAKING: Marco Rubio calls VP J.D. Vance a “great 2028 nominee” — “I hope he intends to do it.”
Rubio remains coy about any plans of his own.
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