Trump Vice President Lead’s EVERY 2026 Republican President nomination poll….
That said?
There ARE a some Republican party members ALREADY trying to knock Vance out of the running…..
Yes. Republicans……
It’s gonna be a hard act to follow Donald J. Trump….
With Donald Gone?
Where does the Grand Ole Party go to?
Do they want a JD Vance carrying Trump on his back for the next two years?
And old unfocused and wandering Unpopular Trump?
Possibly a Trump who helps Democrats recover and regain the Congress?
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who ran for president in 2016 and is considered a possible future contender for the White House, says the Republican Party has not coalesced around Vice President Vance as its 2028 nominee and needs to have a broader discussion about its direction after President Trump leaves office.
Asked by MS NOW’s Ali Vitali whether Republicans have settled on Vance as their standard-bearer in 2028, Cruz replied: “Oh, no.”
“There’s going to be a full discussion about who we are and what we believe,” he said, noting earlier in the interview that he was Trump’s strongest rival in 2016 and beat him in primary contests in 12 states that year. He added that Trump has been an “extraordinary president.”
Cruz said there “is no Never Trump lane” in the Republican Party anymore and praised Trump’s willingness to fight for his views…
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“Going forward, we’re in the midst of a debate about who our party is and what we believe, and I think economically we’ve got to debate, ‘Are we a small-government, free-market conservative party, are we a big-government, nanny-state party?’” he said.
Asked if he will be part of the discussion, possibly as a future presidential candidate, about what the Republican Party stands for, Cruz said: “There’ll be time to figure that out.”
“I’ll certainly be part of the discussion because I care deeply about — economically, I think we should be a conservative party. And on foreign policy, we’ve got to debate, ‘Are we an isolationist party that withdraws from the world or do we believe in American leadership?’….
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JD VANCE’S POLITICAL OPERATION is growing increasingly annoyed by what it sees as a brewing plot to sabotage the vice president’s chances of winning the 2028 GOP presidential nomination, according to aides familiar with the situation.
The efforts to undermine Vance have largely been confined to broadsides on X and whisper networks behind the scenes. But they’ve grown significant enough to spark paranoia inside the Vance network, which—despite public posturing to the contrary—is gaming out what a presidential primary might look like.
“Do you think we’re fucking stupid?” a Vance ally told me, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal thinking. To describe the effort, playing out partly in public and partly behind the scenes, this source used the term “op”—short for operation, the preferred nomenclature for the terminally online who see digital manipulation everywhere. “Obviously it is [an op]. We’re not a bunch of fucking retards.”
The concerns over the nascent anti-Vance effort provide an early indication of how intense Republican infighting will be in the party’s post-Trump future. As a sign of how seriously the effort is being taken, another Trump world source familiar with the so-called op …….
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Vice President JD Vance has attacked several conservative icons in recent weeks, unnerving many in the Republican Party’s old guard ahead of the 2028 presidential primary.
Last month, Vance criticized British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an ally of Republican President Ronald Reagan, for economic policies that he said moved the country “further away” from prosperity and Christianity. Vance said it was “obviously a good thing” that the American right was distancing itself from Milton Friedman, long regarded as the intellectual godfather of modern conservative economics…..
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