Rubio’s next move? Lawyers eye speech of 'visionary' leader for 2028 clues after GOP’s midterm wipeout
HOUSE CONSERVATIVE EMERGES WITH 2028 PRESIDENTIAL PICK AFTER GOP'S MIDTERM MASSACRE: 'I AM ALL IN' "There are a lot of people in the room who are going to be wondering if he's still planning on running for president someday," Rachel Paulose, a former U.S.
Key points
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio will deliver his first major speech apart from his diplomatic duties Friday following the GOP’s blowout midterm losses, with some attendees at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention eager to hear how he will chart a path forward as the 2028 presidential race draws closer.
- I hope he addresses the foreign policy implications and how he thinks foreign policy played a role into that, into the election results." Rubio will deliver an approximately 45-minute speech for the Barbara Olson Memorial Lecture, whose previous speakers include former Attorney General Bill Barr and The Free Press founder Bari Weiss.
- RUBIO SOUNDS CAMPAIGN-READY AS HE RAILS AGAINST OPEN BORDERS, GLOBALISM IN SPEECH FROM ANCIENT GREEK RUINS Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, was first elected to the U.
Trump has previously floated a 2028 ticket pairing Vance and Rubio, who at one point held four senior administration roles simultaneously and became the subject of a running internet joke about his expanding portfolio.
Additional details
- "That will be a question that will be top of mind for a lot of people." Republicans lost a net 41 House seats and eight Senate seats, with Alaska's Senate race still undecided, marking the largest simultaneous loss in both chambers of Congress for Republicans in a midterm election since 1958.
- President Donald Trump has partly blamed the losses on voters' opposition to the Iran war, and Vice President JD Vance was more direct about the war's impact on the election results, though Rubio has yet to weigh in.
- But another question weighs heavily on the minds of attendees at the annual conference in Washington, D.C., which attracts prominent lawyers affiliated with the conservative movement.
- It'll be interesting to see what the Democratic House and the Democrat Senate will do regarding funding of the State Department." Shu said Rubio could also address U.
- CONSERVATIVES STUNNED BY 'CATASTROPHIC' MIDTERM BLUE TSUNAMI, BLAME TRUMP'S IRAN WAR, HIGH GAS PRICES "I don't know that he's going to address the domestic policies.
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