London | Donald Trump’s senior cabinet members are scrambling to save their political futures, with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth launching a defiant video of his record and Secretary of State Marco Rubio denying reports he is considering quitting to plot his own presidential bid.
The manoeuvring by Rubio and Hegseth comes a day after Vice President J.D. Vance publicly broke with the US president and explicitly blamed the war with Iran and US inflation for this week’s shellacking for the Republicans at the midterm elections.
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