Marco Rubio REJECTS reports he's leaving WH role for 2028 bid

Rubio is rejecting reports that he will leave his job in the White House to pursue a presidential campaign, telling the New York Times, quote, I love the work I'm doing. And plus, I always laugh when they say he's going to leave his job. I go, which one? I literally will not talk about 2028 anymore. I just won't do it. While Rubio may be shutting the door on a presidential run, Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, is leaving it wide open. If we're getting blown out in Texas, how does a Republican have any chance at winning the electoral college? And so that's just the reality that I think everyone needs to face. And that's something that obviously I'm thinking of. The other thing is this. My view is you run for office to do something, not to be somebody. The only way that I would run for any office is if you can actually deliver big results. And here to react is Fox News contributor Clay Travis. Clay, it's interesting in politics. A lot of it has to do with timing, the pulse of the country, where we are at the moment. Both of them have run for president in the past, and they were not successful, obviously. But is this their time? Could a Marco, could a DeSantis, could it be their time in two years? I think so. DeSantis, certainly. And I would think that based on the fact that DeSantis got hammered last time, if you remember, he waited until, I believe, late to mid-May to enter the race. And by that point, the Trump team had already been delivering body blows on him for months. Given the fact that he is term limited out as Florida governor and will be passing the baton to Byron Donalds, it wouldn't shock me if Ron DeSantis decided in February or March coming up I'm going to go ahead and announce. It might sound crazy to people, but January of 2028 is not that far along when you consider how much has to be done to get ready to run and start to get the verdict on who the nominee will be in January. Marco Rubio is, to me, a more intriguing decision he has to make. Does he want to run? Is he going to run against J.D. Vance? Here's what I would say in general. He's done a phenomenal job as Secretary of State. I can't imagine that Marco Rubio wants to be a vice president where he has to just kind of sit in the shadows underneath somebody else. He's had a great deal of opportunity to do many different things, a great deal of agency as secretary of state. Arguably, as vice president, he would actually have less authority to make decisions on his own in many respects. So that is the big decision he has to make. Let me give a praise to both these guys. In times when it feels like everybody goes Nancy Pelosi and ends up worth tens of millions of dollars on their stock trades, Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis both have normal guy net worths. They've never gotten rich off their jobs, which I think is going to matter a lot to many different voters. I think both guys will have strong cases and obviously coming from Florida. They have a lot of overlap between their networks, their supporters, and everyone else will have to make a decision starting next year about who they think is the best nominee going forward. And on the other side, for the Democratic Party, Ro Khanna says he's thinking about running. AOC has said she is not ruling it out. Who do you think would be the better choice or could win? Between those two, I think that's like asking me to decide between cyanide or hanging. I think both of them sound awful. But if you look in general, I think we will see a hugely expansive Democrat Party field. Because if you go and look at the results that came out of the midterm, the moderates have reasons to feel good. The socialists have reasons to feel good. The people kind of in between that arena have reasons to feel good. Here's another prediction, Ainsley. I bet on both sides, you will get Trump-like candidates, people who have never run for political office before and think they could catch some of the Donald Trump magic from back in 2015. Well, Rahm Emanuel, when he was on our show earlier this week, he made a good point about 2028 for the Democrats. He said, we've always been told who the Democrat nominee is going to be. This time, the field is wide open. Why do you think that J.D. Vance made the comment about... The reason for the blue wave is because of the conflict in Iran. Do you think that was to separate himself if he does run, to separate himself from Donald Trump? And what do you think the backlash was behind the scenes? Yeah, that's such an important question. So, yes, I think J.D. Vance and we'll say Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis had a press conference. J.D. Vance put out a statement. Ted Cruz put out a statement. J.D. Vance is vice president. He is directly connected to the president of the United States. If you remember when Kamala tried to run after Joe Biden stepped down, she was asked on The View, is there anything you would do different? It became a huge story in the campaign because she said. Not that I can think of. I'm paraphrasing that basically she would have done the exact same thing as the president. That's traditionally the vice president's role here. J.D. Vance is letting it be known and the stories have been written that he did not favor the decision to go into Iran, that the president made that choice. And to me, when I read that statement, it was clear that J.D. Vance was trying to create space between he and the president, which is a very difficult thing. For the vice president to do, because arguably the job of vice president more than anything else is to straight up have the president's back, even when the president makes decisions that you personally may disagree with. All right. Great to see you. Have a good weekend. Thank you so much for coming on. Hey, you too, Ainsley. Thank you. Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch full shows streaming now on Fox 1.