Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed to announce his pick to replace outgoing Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., “by the beginning of January.”

The successor to Rubio, announced as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next secretary of state, is under DeSantis’ purview as governor and he vowed Monday to have that pick announced even before Rubio takes his new role in the administration Jan. 20, 2025.

“Sen. Marco Rubio is expected to resign from the Senate to assume duties as Secretary of State when the Trump administration takes power on January 20th, creating a vacancy roughly two months from today,” DeSantis wrote in a post on X from his governor’s account.

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