Overview
- President Trump has been privately asking advisers, donors and friends to compare Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance for 2028, and he has not decided.
- At a Feb. 28 Mar-a-Lago dinner, attendees reportedly cheered louder for Rubio when Trump asked for a show of preference, though one attendee later described the room as more evenly split.
- Axios’s Marc Caputo says Trump is hearing more positive feedback for Rubio at the top of the ticket, crediting Rubio’s high-profile foreign-policy role.
- Early GOP polling still shows Vance with a sizable primary lead, keeping him the public frontrunner despite the recent donor buzz for Rubio.
- Reports say Trump often turns to Rubio on foreign policy, and his eventual endorsement could shape the party between Vance’s populist, less interventionist stance and Rubio’s more hawkish approach.