Two and half years out from the 2028 Presidential Election….
Trump’s Vice President , and Republican heir imagined, IS beginning to raise campaign money it would seem….
JD Vance headlined a closed-door gathering for the spring summit of the Rockbridge Network, a secretive donor group that Vance co-founded in 2019 during his stint as a private investor. According to a source in the room, there were about 250 members of the donor community at the event, which cost at least $100,000 per person to attend.
Vance’s remarks focused on his role leading President Trump’s new anti-fraudtask force, as well as the fast-approaching 2026 midterm elections and the challenge for Republicans to keep both chambers of Congress, the source told CBS News.
The vice president’s appearance at the Rockbridge conference comes as wealthy Republicans gird for an anticipated blue wave in the midterms. Political groups aligned with Mr. Trump are expected to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the next eight months.
But looming over the multi-day event was also speculation about a different election — the 2028 presidential contest. Fifty-three percent of respondents at the Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend said Vance was their preferred candidate in the 2028 Republican primary. Secretary of State Marco Rubio earned 35% support in the CPAC survey, coming in second place.
The source who was in the room for Vance’s remarks said he did not discuss 2028 “at all.”
“It obviously wouldn’t be too smart to do that,” the source said.
In Nashville this week, a subtle blending of business and politics was on full display. Earlier in the day, Vance appeared at a Republican fundraising event in the city, according to someone familiar with the matter.
Then it was on to the Rockbridge event, where he mingled with megadonors and businesspeople who could be key to bolstering Vance should he run in 2028….
Note…
Vance dealing with his unpopular Boss , Donald Trump, for 2028, IS gonna be INTERESTING….
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Vance Announces New Book on Faith
Vice President JD Vance, who is widely expected to run for president in 2028, announced Tuesday that he’s written a book about his “personal journey” in faith, which will come out in June, CNN reports.
Said Vance: “I’ve been writing this book for a long time, and I’m honored to finally be able to share the full story with you all. Communion is about my personal journey and how I found my way back to faith.”
Ahead of 2028, Vance Collects Cash, Chits and Contacts
Vice President JD Vance’s unusual second job as the finance chair of the Republican National Committee is exactly the kind of role an ambitious presidential aspirant might dream up.
He’s been able to do some good for the party, raising tens of millions of dollars at events for Republicans as they head into the midterms. And he’s been able to do some good for himself, wooing some of his party’s richest and most influential patrons.
Mr. Vance and his team have been leery of being seen as plotting about anything beyond the 2026 midterms, or of drawing attention to President Trump’s limited time left in the White House and the Republican race to succeed him.
But as the first vice president to serve as the finance chair of the party, Mr. Vance has been taking full advantage of the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of top Republican financiers — both skeptics, of whom there are plenty, and loyalists. And when he shows up at these fund-raisers, guests are prone to ask the obvious:
You’re running, right?…..