Humiliated JD Vance Faces Brutal 2028 Reality Check

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Kylie Cooper/Reuters Vice President JD Vance is facing up to the reality that his path to becoming president in 2028 is narrowing. Those close to Vance fear that the GOP’s…

Vice President JD Vance is facing up to the reality that his path to becoming president in 2028 is narrowing.

Those close to Vance fear that the GOP’s disastrous midterm elections and a lack of support from major donors mean he already faces an uphill battle to succeed President Donald Trump.

Vance has long been considered the frontrunner to take the MAGA crown, even as the 80-year-old president has been coy about whom he will endorse.

However, it seems the vice president is aware of the mammoth task that awaits him. He is strongly tied to Trump and his near record-low approval ratings, the disastrous war in Iran, and voters massively rejecting the Republican Party and the MAGA movement as a whole.

Vance is also failing to convince key figures that he is the right man to lead the post-Trump era, with one Republican telling The Washington Post that he is aware of around four or five “pretty substantial” GOP donors who have already said they would not support a Vance 2028 bid.

Even if Vance manages to clinch the 2028 Republican nomination, a person close to him told The Washington Post that “we’re going to have big problems” if the general electorate opposes the GOP as fiercely as it does now. The Vance ally fears that if it does, the party will lose the 2028 election no matter who is leading the ticket.

Following the midterm massacre, in which Democrats won control of the House and Senate, as well as several crucial gubernatorial races, Vance desperately scrambled to distance himself from the war in Iran in what was seen as an attempt to lay the groundwork for 2028.

“There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is,” Vance wrote. “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.”

The war has dragged on for more than eight months, with no end in sight. Those close to Vance fear that his hopes, and those of other Republicans, of winning the next election will be nonexistent unless the conflict is resolved well before…

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