Wow: There’s A New Favorite to Succeed President Trump and It’s Not VP Vance

assignments to his VP. Rubio has frequently taken on roles beyond that of Secretary of State, including positions such as acting administrator of USAID, acting archivist of the United States, and acting national security adviser early in the second Trump administration. He has leaned into the joke consistently and, on Tuesday, filled in for White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is currently on maternity leave.

And Vance has said when pressed about his future that he planned to have a conversation about that with the president in February of next year, after the midterms.