With former president and now President-elect Trump term-limited and constitutionally unable to run again for the White House in 2028, Vice President-elect JD Vance is on a glide path to be the heir apparent to the America First movement and the Republican Party’s powerful MAGA base.
It was a point driven home by Donald Trump Jr., the former and future president’s eldest son and powerful ally of the vice president-elect.
“We are getting four more years of Trump and then eight years of JD Vance!” Trump Jr. said on the campaign trail in Ohio a few weeks ahead of November’s election.
Plenty of Republican politicians, strategists and pundits agree that Vance, who was elected to the Senate in Ohio just two years ago, will likely be the clear frontrunner in the next Republican presidential nomination race.
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Sen. JD Vance and former President Trump speak during an election night celebration at the Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 6, 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“The vice president will be in the catbird seat. No question about it,” longtime Republican consultant Dave Carney told Fox News Digital.
Carney, a veteran of numerous Republican presidential campaigns over the past four decades, said Vance “is the guy to beat.”
David Kochel, another longtime GOP strategist with plenty of presidential campaign experience, told Fox News that Vance is the frontrunner due to “the size and the scope of last week’s victory and the implied passing of the torch from Donald Trump.”
“There will be no shortage of people looking at it. But most people looking at it are seeing the relative strength of the Trump victory and the movement,” Kochel said.
Former President Trump greets Sen. JD Vance at an election night celebration, in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 6, 2024. (AP/Evan Vucci)
And with Trump’s support in a party firmly in the president-elect’s grip, the 40-year-old…
