# Why Trump keeps asking 'Vance or Rubio?' Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-daily-504641/why-trump-keeps-asking-vance-or-rubio Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-daily-504641/why-trump-keeps-asking-vance-or-rubio.md Podcast: [ABC News Daily](https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-daily-504641) Published: 2026-05-14T16:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-news-daily/why-trump-keeps-asking-vance-or-rubio/106681002 Audio file: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/kh/Z/h7.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/abc-news-daily-504641/episodes/why-trump-keeps-asking-vance-or-rubio Duration seconds: 973 ## Resource Marco Rubio is hitting his stride, he’s Trump’s National Security Advisor and his Secretary of State, he’s taken over the White House press briefing, sat down with the Pope and is now in China for Trump’s showdown with President Xi. No wonder speculation is growing that he could be the next Republican presidential nominee, instead of Vice President JD Vance. Today, Geoff Kabaservice from the Niskanen Center think tank on the new political battle in the US. Featured: Geoff Kabaservice, Niskanen Center Vice President for Political Studies ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/abc-news-daily-504641/episodes/why-trump-keeps-asking-vance-or-rubio/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-daily-504641/why-trump-keeps-asking-vance-or-rubio.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.