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“He Needs Rubio OUT” - JD Vance Strategy To Becoming The President

Valuetainment

September 8, 2026

Patrick Bet-David and the Home Team break down JD Vance's path to 2028, his ties to Tucker Carlson and whether Trump trusts him. PBD argues Marco Rubio is the only Republican capable of beating Vance and warns the GOP that anointing a nominee without a brutal primary could cost them the White House.

Speakers Patrick Bet-David, Tom, Vinnie, JD Vance, Charlie Kirk, Adam, Jake

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Patrick Bet-David (0:30)

Everybody's wondering who's going to be running for president. A lot of conversations of who's going to be running for president. On the left, you see AOC, Newsome, Pritzker, you know, Ossoff, Tom's favorite, and some of these names, Shapiro, Josh Shapiro, some of these names out there.

Tom (0:43)

And Kamala still has her support.

Patrick Bet-David (0:45)

And Kamala as well, yes, and possibly Hunter Brighton and Don Lemon now saying he's thinking about it. On the right, you hear stories about, you know, JD Vance, maybe Rubio and a few other names.

And JD Vance recently was asked about Tucker because Tucker made comments about El-Sayed. And El-Sayed is the guy in Michigan. Tucker said, I would never vote for the opposing guy, Mike Rogers. I think that his guy's...

Vinnie (1:09)

Put a gun to my head.

Patrick Bet-David (1:09)

Yeah, if you put a gun to my head. I don't know if we have that clip in the back.

If we have it for us to show it, if you put a gun to my head, I wouldn't vote for him, right? And is this it? Is this a clip? Go for it. Let's hear this out. Go for it.

JD Vance (1:21)

Mike Rogers is really...

Tom (1:25)

I wouldn't vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint.

Patrick Bet-David (1:26)

Right? And so, that's the candidate, a literal loser who lost when Donald Trump won the state, just to show you how much of a headwind he had at his back.

Charlie Kirk (1:35)

He's basically a tool of Israel in the intelligence.

JD Vance (1:38)

How would you run someone like that?

Patrick Bet-David (1:40)

It doesn't even make sense. So that makes no sense. Well, El-Syed, look, El-Syed is a full-blown... He doesn't call himself TSA. He's a full-blown leftist. I've known him for quite a long time. I watch his campaign now.

It's America First. The amount of times he says... When he talks about Israel, he says, Israel is committing a genocide, but ultimately, I want to make sure that you don't pay more for health care. I don't want your tax dollars going abroad.

Patrick Bet-David (2:05)

So now, that's El-Syed. So as evil as Mike Rogers is, he's not as evil as El-Syed and what he believes in. So let's continue to allow more of them to have more power, the DSA, the Socialist, the Islamist.

And so JD Vance was asked about this, his relationship with Tucker, and here's what he had to say. Go for it.

SPEAKER_8 (2:22)

Carlson has called for the president's impeachment and many accused him of trying to jeopardize US. Israel relations. What do you say to those who are uneasy with their close relationship with Carlson and claim that you're avoiding addressing a lot of these issues, which may be causing divisions within the GOP?

JD Vance (2:39)

Well, look, I'm not avoiding addressing anything. Everybody knows that Tucker Carlson and I are friends, and I think it's very obvious that Tucker has said some things that I disagree with. He said some things about the president of the United States that I think are just wrong.

I think yesterday somebody sent me a clip that said that he would support El-Sayed over Rogers. I think El-Sayed is a crazy person, and I think whatever your views on Mike Rogers' specific policy prescriptions, I'd like to have a non-crazy person like Mike Rogers representing Michigan and the United States Senate rather than a crazy person like El-Sayed. That said, my attitude towards this, and I try to practice what I preach. And I remember when I became the vice presidential nominee, one of the hardest things for me personally is not when people attacked me, but when people attacked my wife, including friends of hers who knew her heart, who knew what a good person she was. And I remember thinking to myself, what a travesty it is that in the United States of America, we let political disagreements define who our friends are going to be and not going to be. So yeah, Tucker is a friend of mine. Tucker is a friend despite the fact that we disagree on a number of things. And I'm not going to play the game where I throw friends under the bus because I have. How do you feel about that?

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