As Vice President JD Vance positioned himself as President Donald Trump’s natural successor at the Republican midterms convention Thursday night, his principal rival, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, ruled himself out of the running.
Vance, 42, delivered a 40-minute address in the American Airlines Center in Dallas that “felt like a presidential nominating convention speech,” according to Reuters, in which he attacked Democrats, paid tribute to Charlie Kirk on the anniversary of his assassination and rebuked a heckler with a Mexican flag.
