Rubio looks increasingly plausible for the 2028 presidential election

(Lester Munson – ASPI The Strategist) Amid the upheavals of Donald Trump’s second term, Marco Antonio Rubio is getting a fresh look as a possible Republican standard bearer in 2028. The secretary of state, speaking at the White House press podium in early May, stirred conservative hearts with a riff on the American dream that included this ad hoc line: ‘My hope for America … is to continue to be the place where anyone, from anywhere, can achieve anything.’ The quote – one sentence in a soliloquy on the virtues of America on the eve of its 250th birthday – went approvingly viral, and renewed speculation about Rubio’s presidential ambitions. Amazingly, Rubio was speaking to the White House press corps in part because of an internet meme. The meme has him slouched on a sofa in the Oval Office assuming the identity of whatever improbable job urgently needed to be done in the world: acting president of Venezuela, shah of Iran, or the overnight shift at Waffle House. (At one point last year, Rubio was serving as secretary of state, national security advisor, administrator of the US Agency for International Development, and the national archivist.) – Rubio looks increasingly plausible for the 2028 presidential election | The Strategist