Rubio Popularity Skyrockets, Vance Craters, As GOP Starts Handicapping 2028 Presidential Nominee

The wagering has begun among political junkies over who will succeed Donald Trump as the Republican national standard bearer.

The latest polling shows U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has gained a staggering 40 points over Vice President JD Vance.

Vance’s likelihood as the next GOP presidential choice is now under 40 percent, the lowest since gamers began rolling the dice on 2028.

He has lost 20 points in the polls while Rubio has gained 20 – a shocking flip of fortunes.

The vice president still leads Rubio in the GOP top-job sweepstakes, 37 percent to 27, but Rubio is continuing to narrow the gap.

The poll by Polymarket was reported by Newsweek.

Rubio’s rising star with the MAGA crowd seems to be his smooth, flawless prosecution of U.S. foreign policy, most notably the war with Iran.

Vance has seemingly become a third wheel on Iran because he has  historically been against regime building in the Middle East.

So now that his boss is lodging bombs into Khamenei’s basement Vance is forced to play second fiddle to “Little Marco.”

That derisive nickname, given presidential-hopeful Rubio by candidate Trump in 2015, has long since passed, as Rubio’s star has risen meteorically with the president.

The former U.S. senator from Florida is clearly the rock star these days of Trump’s cabinet, while Vance has been effectively sidelined, whether by design or not.

“Where the hell is JD Vance? Where is he?” former GOP Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who recently resigned, asked on Megyn Kelly’s show earlier this month.