On his podcast this week, Trump Jr. warned that if someone like Marco Rubio was Trump’s vice president, RINOs in the Senate might vote to convict Trump in an impeachment because they’d prefer a President Rubio (but not President Vance) to Trump. “There is something about having someone from outside the establishment to sort of further protect you from that establishment,” he said. (Though, Trump Jr. “joked,” if his father really wanted to be assassination-proof, he’d need Vice President Donald Trump Jr.)
Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, and Charlie Kirk have also been lobbying Trump to pick Vance, according to the
Wall Street Journal.