The 2028 election is more than two years away, but speculating about who will be the first person in over a decade not named Donald Trump to appear atop the Republican ticket appears to be the 47th president’s favorite parlor game.
Trump on Monday conducted an informal straw poll of visiting law enforcement officials and other allies whom he’d gathered for dinner on the slate patio where the White House Rose Garden was until he tore it up and paved it over last year.
