Two key figures, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, appear to be the front-runners. Trump himself suggested that Vance is the "likely" candidate to succeed him, while also leaving open the possibility of a Vance-Rubio joint ticket.

Elon Musk firmly supported Donald Trump’s Washington D.C. power grab while praising JD Vance as a “good guy”—a day after the vice president called for a Trump-Musk reunion. Vance had told far-right website The Gateway Pundit Saturday his thoughts on the acrimonious split earlier this year: “my hope is that it just kinda cools down a bit.

The relationship between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk seemed to come to an end in June 2025, and according to Vice President JD Vance, it’s still “complicated.” During an interview with far-right publication The Gateway Pundit,