Political Analyst Predicts 2028 Republican Presidential Ticket
Political analyst Mark Halperin has made his prediction about who will be at the top of the next presidential ticket for Republicans, and part of it should come as no surprise.
The analyst appeared on the Fox News show “Special Report,” where he predicted Vice President J.D. Vance would be the candidate for president and his vice-presidential running mate would be Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Halperin told host Brett Baier that it may be a rare occurrence where the ticket is “preordained.”
Baier played a clip of Secretary Rubio speaking to senators about ongoing global affairs, and the host said that the secretary’s “stock has gone up.”
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“Yeah, you know, when he was back in the Florida legislature, he was tagged as someone destined for, you know, a national profile, and his presidential campaign disappointed his supporters, but he is just one of the stars of this administration, even if you don’t agree with his policies. His knowledge of policy, his knowledge, his rhetoric, his confidence, and his winning over MAGA. He went a rough spell with MAGA over immigration, and now he is one of the heroes of the movement,” Halperin said.
“And I said earlier today, I’ll say it again, I really do think J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio could end up being a preordained ticket in 2028, unlike anything we’ve ever seen before,” he said.
At the start of the month, the president was asked about who his successor might be, and he mentioned both Vance and Rubio as possibilities to NBC News.
“There’s a lot of them that are great. I also see tremendous unity. But certainly you would say that somebody’s the VP, if that person is outstanding, I guess that person would have an advantage,” the president said.
But in an interview with NBC News last week, Vice President Vance dismissed the idea of a “rivalry” with Rubio and said that if he decides to campaign for president in 2028, he does not consider himself to be “entitled” to being the Republican nominee.
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“I can just feel it — the media is going to start telling some story of me versus Marco or me having a rivalry with Marco,” Vance recently said to a consultant, he told NBC News
“Most of the time,” the vice president said. “I don’t give a s— about this stuff. I don’t even think that much about it.”
He said that he and the Secretary of State talk five times a day, “on a light day.”
He said that he knows that if there is a call that Rubio is going to be on, he can skip taking the call and simply talk to the Secretary later about it.
“That’s the level of trust and confidence that I have in Marco,” the vice president said.
“My attitude is, if I do end up running in 2028, I’m not entitled to it,” he said. “But I really think that Marco and I can get a lot done together over the next few years. That’s how I think about our friendship and our relationship. And I would be shocked if he thought about it any differently.”
In November, just after the presidential election, Halperin said that Vance has “a huge advantage” over other contenders in 2028 because he is willing to have interviews across a variety of platforms.
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“I think one of the smartest things JD Vance could do to consolidate his position … is to go on those shows regularly. He can do it. He can develop personal relationships with those people, and people in the media, contrary to popular perception, are human beings,” the analyst said on “2Way Radio.”
“And if the vice president of the United States is stopping by your podcast every month and giving you time, you’re gonna be favorably disposed towards that person,” he said
