{"id":127813,"date":"2026-06-24T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/127813\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:13:08","slug":"dana-white-drops-major-hint-about-backing-marco-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/127813\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White drops major hint about backing Marco Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC CEO Dana White<\/a> hinted at endorsing Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> during an interview on OutKick\u2019s Tomi Lahren is Fearless, Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u200bWhen asked by Lahren about potential 2028 picks, White declined to commit<\/a> to a specific person. However, he did express admiration for Rubio.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what\u2019s funny is, as I was leading up to the White House<\/a> fight and doing all this media, you know, a lot of the left media was saying to me, \u2018So you\u2019re out of politics after this, right?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve become really close to Rubio.\u201d<\/p>\n

White said he likes the way Rubio handles himself, calling him \u201csmart\u2019 and \u201ca great guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200b\u201cNever say never,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not saying I\u2019m picking that, I\u2019m just saying that people are asking me if I\u2019m going to get out of politics when the president leaves, and I just said, \u2018I\u2019ve become very close to Rubio. He and I have become friends.’\u201d<\/p>\n

UFC FIGHTER SAYS HE CALLED MICHELLE OBAMA A MAN AS A \u2018COMPLIMENT\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\u200bWhite is an outspoken supporter and personal friend of President Donald Trump<\/a>. He has introduced Trump at various events, including the\u00a0 UFC fight<\/a> on the White House lawn.<\/p>\n

\u200bRubio is widely considered a top<\/a> potential contender for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, though he has yet to announce any campaign plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC CEO Dana White hinted at endorsing Secretary of State Marco Rubio during an interview on OutKick\u2019s Tomi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[121],"tags":[2909,10607,23915,186,36351,11837],"class_list":["post-127813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-marco-rubio","tag-2028-elections","tag-dana-white","tag-endorsements","tag-marco-rubio","tag-tomi-lahren","tag-ufc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116807152803471968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}