President-elect Trump is expected to nominate Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for secretary of state, sources told Fox News.
The person said there is still a chance that President Trump could change his mind at the last minute, but for now, the former president was considering Sen. J.D. Vance as a running mate before nominating him this summer. He said he plans to offer the job to Rubio, a term-term senator. as the Republican vice presidential candidate.
A spokesperson for President Trump's transition had no immediate comment.
The news was first reported by the New York Times earlier this evening.
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Former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets Republican Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) during a campaign rally at JS Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 4, 2024. (Getty Images)
Rubio, the son of Cuban exiles, was first elected to the Senate in 2010 as part of the Tea Party wave. He is known on Capitol Hill as a foreign policy hawk who supports maintaining U.S. alliances overseas, including NATO.
But Mr. Rubio, who serves on both the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations committees, has taken similar positions to Mr. Trump on international conflicts, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Israel's war with Hamas.
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In April, the 53-year-old senator voted against $95 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine and called on Eastern European countries to negotiate an end to the war with Russia.
Rubio was Trump's rival in the fierce 2016 Republican presidential nomination race. [with Trump deriding him as ‘Little Marco’] But he has long been a staunch ally of Mr. Trump in the Senate.
On November 4, 2024, during a campaign rally at JS Dorton Arena in north Raleigh, Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump are joined by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Arkansas Gov. Sara・Carolina appeared on stage with Huckabee Sanders. (Chip Somodevilla)
Rubio, the son of Cuban exiles, will be the first Latinx Secretary of State in Cuba's history.
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), a major supporter of President Trump this year, praised the news.
“We know that with Senator Rubio leading the State Department, America will stand side by side with our allies against our adversaries,” RJC National Chairman Sen. Norm Coleman and CEO Matt Brooks said in a statement. “
He added: “Senator Rubio is an outspoken defender of Israel who has always supported the Jewish state during these extremely dangerous times.”
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Less than a week after winning a second term in the White House, Trump has already begun assembling his Cabinet.
In the past 24 hours, President Trump has appointed Representative Elise Stefanik of New York as ambassador to the United Nations, Representative Tom Homan as the new “border czar,” and Representative Michael Walz of Florida as national security adviser. Elected to office. Former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin has been appointed to the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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