Rubio Says He Has ‘No Plans at This Time’ to Run for President

Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio said he has “no plans” to run for president.

“I don’t know what the future holds, but I have no plans at this time,” Rubio said in an interview with Colombian news station RCN. “I’m not a candidate for anything right now. And I’m 100 percent focused on my job, and I have to be because I have two jobs.”

Rubio, one of several candidates for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination that eventually went to Donald Trump, has been touted as a successor to Trump and the MAGA movement. But Vice President JD Vance could enter the 2028 presidential race, making a Rubio run difficult.

Nonetheless, a survey by Emerson College and The Hill published in late August found that in four hypothetical matchups with Democrats, Rubio outperforms Vance.

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom both had five-point leads over Vance and three-point and two-point leads, respectively, over Rubio.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris led Vance with 49 percent support to his 45 percent. But she trailed Rubio by five points.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) trailed Vance by two points and Rubio by five points. She was the only candidate to lose to both of them.

However, polls show Vance leading a hypothetical GOP 2028 presidential nomination field.

A poll released by Harvard CAPS/HarrisX on Sept. 2 showed Vance in the lead with 44 percent followed by Rubio with 21 percent.

Rubio told Vanity Fair last year that he will support Vance if he runs in 2028.

In June, Vance told CBS News he will talk about a presidential run with his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, after the November midterms. The couple had their fourth child in July.

“Usha and I will absolutely sit down and talk about what comes next for our family,” he said. “The way I make decisions is, I try not to make them until I absolutely must.”

Vance said Trump would support his decision.

“I have no doubt that the president of the United States is going to be very supportive of anything that I ultimately decide to do,” he told CBS News. “But we really just haven’t talked about what that thing will be.”

In June, Trump told podcaster and conservative commentator Miranda Devine that a Vance-Rubio ticket “would be very hard to beat.”

“It’s interesting, human thing, the human equation. So ​I watch them together, they get along great,” he said.