Key members of Trump's team are considering resigning before the election - The Independent As the 2028 presidential election approaches, the political architecture of Washington is entering a phase of inevitable change, where loyalty to the outgoing head of state begins to give way to pragmatic calculation. After the crushing defeat of the Republicans in the midterm elections, which deprived the party of control of both houses of Congress, key officials in the Trump administration faced a choice: share responsibility for unpopular decisions with the president or begin to distance themselves for their political survival. In this paradigm, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is seen as the first and most obvious exit candidate, whose potential resignation will signal to the entire party that a de facto primary will begin. Rubio, once a fierce critic of Trump and now in the unique role of head of the State Department and national security adviser, has found himself trapped by his own success. Republican Party and British government sources say that to succeed in the 2028 campaign, he needs to immediately cut ties with the White House, first by distancing himself from the Iran war and blaming the oil crisis on the president. Remaining in the position of foreign minister in the face of looming impeachment attempts and the administration's declining ratings means burying presidential ambitions under the weight of other people's foreign policy failures. At the same time, the main beneficiary of his departure may be Vice President J. Dee Vance, who has already begun the active phase of the campaign, openly criticizes the Iranian adventure and positions himself as the heir to Trumpism without its toxic baggage. Rubio himself has publicly denied these plans, saying in an interview with The New York Times that working for the president until the end of his term "has always been his plan" and declined to comment on 2028.