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{"id":2603,"date":"2024-11-18T16:51:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ron-desantis-apprentice-governor-announces-how-hell-pick-marco-rubios-replacement\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T16:51:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:51:42","slug":"ron-desantis-apprentice-governor-announces-how-hell-pick-marco-rubios-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ron-desantis-apprentice-governor-announces-how-hell-pick-marco-rubios-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis\u2019 \u2018Apprentice\u2019: Governor announces how he\u2019ll pick Marco Rubio\u2019s replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MIAMI \u2014 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intends to hold interviews and \u201cextensive vetting\u201d to help him decide who should replace Marco Rubio in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The seat will soon open up after President-elect Donald Trump announced he planned to nominate Rubio to be secretary of state, which will necessitate Rubio resigning from his role. DeSantis under Florida law will be tasked with appointing Rubio\u2019s successor, and he said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1858539688581066820\" target=\"_blank\">in a post on X Monday<\/a> morning that he would likely finish the selection process \u201cby the beginning of January.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor also expanded on some of the qualities and policy priorities he would be looking for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida deserves a senator who will help President Trump deliver on his election mandate, be strong on immigration and border security, take on the entrenched bureaucracy and administrative state, reverse the nation\u2019s fiscal decline, be animated by conservative principles, and has a proven record of results,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The person he picks will remain in the role until at least 2026, which is when a special election to finish the final two years of Rubio\u2019s term would be held. There would then be a regularly scheduled election in 2028 for a full term.<\/p>\n<p>Possible contenders close to DeSantis include Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nu\u00f1ez, Attorney General Ashley Moody, former Florida House Speaker Jose Oliva and chief of staff James Uthmeier.<\/p>\n<p>Some members of Trump\u2019s inner circle have been pushing for DeSantis to select Lara Trump, the Republican National Committee co-chair who is also Trump\u2019s daughter-in-law. She said in interviews over the weekend that she hadn\u2019t yet spoken to DeSantis but would be \u201chonored\u201d to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said he\u2019d already seen \u201cstrong interest from several possible candidates\u201d and was continuing to gather names and conduct initial vetting for the job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI \u2014 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intends to hold interviews and \u201cextensive vetting\u201d to help him decide who should replace Marco Rubio in the Senate. The seat will soon open up after President-elect Donald Trump announced he planned to nominate Rubio to be secretary of state, which will necessitate Rubio resigning from his role. DeSantis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}