Polls show JD Vance is far ahead of Marco Rubio in a hypothetical race for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination
Donald Trump is reportedly giving increasingly high marks to Vice President JD Vance, strengthening Vance’s chances of securing the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2028.
Vance has been in the spotlight throughout the year, promoting a new memoir about his faith, appearing frequently on TV and negotiating an end to the Iran war — all of which has reportedly caught Trump’s eye.
The president, who is said to have openly quizzed friends and associates about whether Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio should succeed him in office, has shifted his tone, insiders told Axios.
For all its many, many faults, MAGA/Trump, or, let’s say MAGAT, for short, was an organic movement. Trump was the right person at the right time for a populist movement to coalesce around. You cannot impose a new leader on that movement now. It doesn’t work that way. I don’t see JD Vance having anywhere near the same populist support among the MAGATs as Trump. Populist support would have to coalesce around a new leader, organically. In the absence of a new consensus leader, the MAGAT movement will fracture.
You’re assuming fair elections. I bet JD will get 120% of the votes.