Vice President JD Vance laughed off speculation that President Donald Trump is turning the 2028 Republican race into a reality-show-style competition between him and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, joking Wednesday that the president is not staging a televised contest to choose his successor.
The comment came during a White House press conference focused on anti-fraud initiatives, after reporters asked Vance about Trump's recent remarks suggesting that a Vance-Rubio ticket could be a GOP "dream team" in 2028. Trump has repeatedly floated both men as potential heirs to his political movement, but Vance tried to push the conversation back to the job he has now.
