A ‘surprising’ rival to Vice President JD Vance in the early race for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination has emerged, according to a campaign expert.
Vance has long been seen as the heir to Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly seen a groundswell of support among party activists and early voting states.
CNN analyst Eric Bradner said Rubio, who has become a member of Trump’s trusted inner circle, polls particularly well in Iowa.
He added that the former Florida senator is in with a shot at cultivating the support he needs to lead the MAGA movement in life after Trump.
‘I was a little surprised during a recent visit to Iowa how frequently the name of Secretary of State Marco Rubio came up, often in the same breath as JD Vance,’ he said.
‘Both of them, despite their own very public criticism of Trump in the past, now seem to be viewed as team players; as closely aligned with Trump and with his current administration, obviously, as leading members of it.’
He added that, unlike Vance, Rubio has run for president before, so he has spent time campaigning on the ground in states where gaining early traction is crucial.
‘A lot of people in the early voting states remember Rubio visiting them in 2016, when he finished third in Iowa in what were pretty competitive caucuses,’ Bradner noted.
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