Marco Rubio

It's very noticeable that JD Vance is giving a keynote address on Thursday night at this convention before Donald Trump then wraps up with what he promises will be a shorter speech than the one he delivered on Wednesday night.

Um, but Marco Rubio's abroad, he's not here taking part in this at the moment.

So it's one more event where it looks like JD Vance is being anointed as, um, Donald Trump's successor, but that's not guaranteed by any means at all.

And of course, you know, a dramatic result in the midterms could have a, an, an impact on who it is that, uh, that succeeds Trump as well.

The think tanks and the campaign s- conventions, those are, those are complementary institutions.

If you go to a Heritage Foundation conference or a Claremont Institute conference, you'll basically figure out what I think Or Trump thinks, or J.D. Vance thinks, or Marco Rubio thinks, or you'll basically figure that out.

They might use different language, it might be more in the weeds, it might be a little more provocative, but it's...

That's it.

The logic suggests make peace now so you can have time to prepare for the midterm elections.

Trump appears to be defying that log- logic because, and this was an interesting reading, they said that when Donald Trump summoned his advisors to tell them they were going to war with the Iranians, uh, the, the reports are that J.D. Vance and even Rubio and some of these others, they were hesitant.

And then the writer of the article said the reason they agreed with Trump was, and this is the quote, "He has, uh, come out of, uh, s- worse situations," like he has this ability to come back where it looks like it's impossible to come back.

And so therefore they said maybe he'll pull it off again, like with this particular gamble.

...

I think that this was also very strategery-ish too because I think that Trump knows that a lot of people out there are like, "Marco Rubio, ooh." [laughs]

[laughs] And he wasn't there.

Marco's off doing, like-

I would've done that anyway.

Right.

But still, Marco Rubio's still my guy.

[laughs] Okay, best start to the day, conservative and appropriately humor-dosed "I came upon this podcast a couple years ago, and it's my mainstay.

Yeah, I mean, I've long believed that Secretary Besant is one of the two strongest cabinet secretaries that...

DJT has, the other being Rubio.

What I find interesting is that on the one hand, Secretary Besant is doing what he's doing because he, by his own admission, is trying to nudge rates to where equilibrium is.

And on the flip side, Kevin Warsh thinks that the bond market is the best arbiter for telling him what to do.

And

there's been no public messaging from Trump or Rubio, nothing on Truth Social, no statements from the State Department.

Well, Rubio actually, he

didn't condemn the UK's move.

And all he said was that they have a shared goal of stability.

Penny Wong, who's their foreign affairs minister, said they have concerns about the implementation of a blanket ban and unintended consequences for Australian businesses, for Palestinians and Israelis.

So it's yet to be seen if other countries are going to join.

But like we said, Rubio confirmed that the US is not going to be joining these sanctions yet.

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J.D. Vance, obviously, vice president.

What about Marco Rubio? I think Marco Rubio is the smartest man in politics.

I think he is, and obviously he understands buttloads about the government and the way it operates.

He's been in government for a good while.

He's traveled all over the world.

He can talk in any nation to any leader and do so with positivity and knowledge that very few others would be able to do.

So will there be a rub between Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance? That's yet to be seen.

But my opinion, what they should do is tag team.

And the fact that J.D. Vance is seen as the heir apparent, as you would be as vice president, but also the indications are Trump would broadly support that.

You've had reports this week saying Marco Rubio, he's seen as the natural other contender in the race, has been telling friends he doesn't plan to run.

Who wasn't there, by the way.

Interestingly, Rubio wasn't one of the few cabinet members who wasn't there, right?