Kevin Roberts

and the following is where Heritage can put its thumb on the scale because this will be about ideas and issues, is going to be someone who wants to devolve power from Washington to the states, who has an aspirational vision for the American family, a more restrained but still very lethal national security apparatus,

who wants to restore free enterprise, not crony corporatism, but small business free enterprise, like how you cut your teeth and continue to do so, whoever that man or woman is, sign us up for that any day of the week.

I just sit back, take my heritage hat off, and think how lucky we are.

As a movement conservative, I'm just being Kevin as a guy, that we have all these men and women who are not only so good on substance, but thinking about Rubio's speech, who are so doggone articulate about it.

That doesn't happen often in the history of the conservative movement.

We ought to be smiling about the opportunities.

I mean, think about Trump's cabinet.

The thing that strikes me, again, more as a historian than a policy leader, is that he's doing less of this now, but in the first months he was doing over the extended lunch break, all of the interviews with the cabinet secretaries, every single one of them is really good at speaking, really good with media.

Some of them, of course, have done that for their professional careers.

But in the case of Rubio,

and Vance for that matter, you have two deeply intellectual guys.

You think that's intentional?

Yeah.

Hiring?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Because Trump understands that in addition to the policy success that he has to have in his second term, he's passing the baton.

Not just to one of those people or another, but probably that entire group.

He'll leave it to the American people to decide who that's going to be.

But that's why at Heritage we're so excited.