Exclusive: The US secretary of state is thought to be preparing for a presidential run in 2028 and will likely want to distance himself from Trump, The Independent can reveal

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.

  • BuckFutter@timeyak.com
    30·
    2 天前

    I don’t know, pretty sure he had a hand in the indiscriminate destruction/drone striking of all those “drug smuggling” vessels in the Caribbean. Pretty sure there was another one today.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      2 天前

      Agreed, but Hegseth was more directly in charge of those, (reportedly ordering a double-tap to kill survivors–civil suit coming to a court near you) and, again, this isn’t about Rule of Law but embarassing the regime–and killing civilans in SA is nothing out of the ordinary for the US.

      • BuckFutter@timeyak.com
        4·
        2 天前

        Yah agree, but you don’t get to be called the self proclaimed czar of the Caribbean or whatever dumb name was given, was it vice roy maybe?) without giving some direction here, even as sec of state…hegseth was likely following orders from???