Republican megadonor Ken Griffin said he would support Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Vice President JD Vance in a potential 2028 Republican presidential primary, offering an early glimpse of a growing divide among influential Republicans over who should succeed President Donald Trump.

Griffin, founder of hedge fund Citadel and one of the GOP’s biggest donors after giving more than $100 million during the 2024 election cycle, made the comments Wednesday during a private interview with New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Allen & Company conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, Axios reported.

Asked whether he would back Rubio or Vance, Griffin noted he supported Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign and said he would be “predisposed” to back him again.

The remarks reflect an emerging split inside the Republican Party, with establishment-minded donors rallying behind Rubio while many in the party’s populist wing favor Vance, in part because of his reluctance to involve the United States in foreign conflicts, which runs counter to the MAGA agenda.

Griffin has long been skeptical of both Trump and Vance. In 2022, he said it was “time to move on to the next generation” of Republican leadership.

He backed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the 2024 GOP primary and did not donate to Trump’s campaign. According to Axios, Griffin also urged Trump not to choose Vance as his running mate during the 2024 vice presidential search.

Rubio, however, has sought to downplay any future rivalry, saying he would defer to Vance if the vice president decides to run in 2028.

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