Vance vs. Rubio 2028
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Who are the Republican contenders being framed as Trump’s heirs in 2028?
In Donald Trump's second term, there's basically only like five guys who really matter. Steve Witkoff, Scott Besson, Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, and J.D. Vance. And those last two, they really matter, considering they're the ones who best represent Trump's beliefs, and they're basically the only Republicans who are floated for president in 2028. Vance is out with a new book recently, and he's walked back that cat lady comment, making it pretty clear that he's planning to run for president come next year. But considering how much of Trump's second term has Marco Rubio's fingerprints all over it, who's really the heir apparent to the throne of Donald Trump? And what does that version of MAGA look like?
That's coming up on Today Explained from Vox.
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I'm Ested Herndon, filling in on Today Explained. When you talk about the inner workings of Trump world, there are few better than Maggie Haberman. Maggie is a New York Times reporter and recently co-authored the book Regime Change with Jonathan Swant. It's a bestseller and it digs in to everything Trump related, including the question of his 2028 endorsement and how he feels about people like Vance and Rubio. So I started by asking her about this incredible scene in the book where Rupert Murdoch is at the White House with Donald Trump and Trump essentially turns to him and asks him, Vance 2028 or Rubio 2028?
So it's October of last year. And by this point, Trump is suing Murdoch over the Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey Epstein reporting, and specifically about that birthday card that Trump insists he didn't write that has a very Trumpy-looking signature on a female body.
It's not my signature, and it's not the way I speak. And anybody that's covered me for a long time knows that's not my language. It's nonsense.
And Murdoch comes to dinner with a bunch of News Corp executives from his U.K. holdings and from the U.S. And so there's New York Post folks there. And it's in the Blue Room at the White House, very formal dinner. Also there is J.D. Vance and Usha Vance and Marco Rubio. And Trump is very solicitous of Murdoch. I mean, you would think that nothing has happened. But in the course of this conversation, he says, you know, what do you think of J.D. ? And Murdoch says, well, J.D. has the potential to be great. And Vance, who knows full well that Murdoch had tried very hard to keep Trump from picking Vance. Murdoch does not like Vance's worldview. I mean, you know, Vance, he does not believe in the intervention skepticism.
So Vance says, you know, thanks a lot, Rupert. Thanks a lot. And then Trump says, well, what about Marco? And Murdoch says, just very flatly, Marco was brilliant. And It was uncomfortable at this table, according to all of our reporting.
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