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.
“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.”