{"id":73134,"date":"2026-05-16T01:43:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/73134\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T01:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:43:50","slug":"vance-dismisses-2028-ticket-with-rubio-accomplishing-american-peoples-business-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/73134\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance dismisses 2028 ticket with Rubio: &#8216;Accomplishing American people&#8217;s business&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Vice President JD Vance dismissed questions about President Trump&#8217;s suggestion that he join a possible 2028 presidential ticket with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, saying that they are &#8220;focused on accomplishing the American people&#8217;s business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vance was asked about the potential ticket during a <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/vances-anti-fraud-task-force-halts-14b-in-federal-funding-to-home-health-firms-reports-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-services-hospice-fraud-waste-abuse-crackdown-california-minnesota-fcc-president-donald-trump#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news conference<\/a> on Wednesday about the Trump administration&#8217;s fraud crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love Marco. I think he&#8217;s a great secretary of state. He&#8217;s become a very, very dear friend. But I think both of us are very much focused on accomplishing the American people&#8217;s business right now,&#8221; Vance said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Trump teased a potential <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/vance-wins-cpac-straw-poll-for-2028-republican-presidential-nomination-2028-gop-donald-trump-ron-desantis-marco-rubio#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ticket<\/a> with Vance and Rubio, but did not say which of the pair should run for president. In February, Vance said the media was creating &#8220;conflict&#8221; when asked about alleged tension between him and Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who likes J.D. Vance? Who likes Marco Rubio? All right. Sounds like a good ticket,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;By the way, I do believe that\u2019s a dream team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vance said that being on a potential ticket is one of the topics he least likes to discuss when he is &#8220;having a good time and trying to do good work in the job that the American people already elected me to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I was the American people, there are a few things that I would hate more than a person who&#8217;s barely been in one office for a year and a half, is angling for a job two and a half years down the road,&#8221; Vance said, referencing himself.<\/p>\n<p>Another reporter said during the news conference that the media was not promoting 2028 tension between Vance and Rubio as Trump floated the potential ticket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just don&#8217;t think it sounds like the president of the United States to have a televised competition for who would succeed him as his apprentice,&#8221; Vance quipped in response to the reporter. &#8220;I just think that&#8217;s not at all what you would expect the president to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Vance said it was &#8220;natural&#8221; for Trump to joke around with him and Rubio, and that the president has &#8220;always been fascinated by politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Vice President JD Vance dismissed questions about President Trump&#8217;s suggestion that he join a possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[186],"class_list":{"0":"post-73134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-marco-rubio","8":"tag-marco-rubio"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116581725903100046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73134","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=73134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}