Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday brushed off Donald Trump’s habit of polling friends, allies and dinner guests on whether he or Secretary of State Marco Rubio would make a better 2028 Republican presidential nominee, insisting at a press conference that the president was merely joking around.
Vance was speaking alongside Medicare and Medicaid administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz to detail the administration's latest efforts to combat what they describe as an epidemic of public benefits fraud when he was asked about a Monday incident in which Trump conducted an informal straw poll of whether visiting law enforcement officials and other allies at a White House Rose Garden dinner preferred him or Rubio.
