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Since the return of President Trump’s victory in November 2024 – and it was a victory, when Trump won all seven states and the popular vote – the Democrats have reacted with a preference for the left, choosing a strong mayor in New York City, trying to take Virginia purple away from the crazy Congressional map (which was struck down by the District Court), appointing the radical (and very worried) Graham Platner as their candidate on Tuesday in Maine to face moderate and well-respected Senator Susan Collins, Chairwoman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee.
Strong candidates are expected to emerge as the party’s Senate nominees in Michigan and Minnesota. The “Democratic Socialists of America” brutal take on the broken glass of the Democratic Party seems inevitable.
Since the Democrats are the best in the internal civil war between the socialists and the far left liberals, which way will the President Trump GOP turn?
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The candidate for party leader and nominee in 2028 must be considered Vice President JD Vance, but the sitting Veeps simply do not accept the nomination without extraordinary circumstances like the Democrats faced in 2024 when Vice President Harris was nominated when President Joe Biden’s physical and mental illness became too obvious to ignore.
If we look back to 1988, there is sitting Vice President George HW Bush, who had to fight against Senator Robert Dole for the GOP nomination in 1988. Four years earlier, former Vice President Walters Mondale had to face a challenge from Senator Gary Hart. Most recently VP Al Gore was not re-elected after loyal service as President Bill Clinton’s number 2, having to defeat Senator Bill Bradley for the 2000 Democratic nomination.
The law says that the Vice Presidents must fight in the primaries to win their parties to be elected president, except for that law is Kamala Harris. See how that turned out. Parties become stronger when their primaries are contested.
So even if Vice President Vance is seeking President Trump’s office, he should expect a challenge in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and beyond. While President Trump is expected to endorse his hand-picked candidates for #2, 2027 — and there should be many — and the 2028 caucuses and primaries should be buzzing news as the “Trump era” ends.
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President Trump and his message of “Make America Great Again” has dominated the Republican Party since the summer of 2015, when Trump took down every Republican challenger in a crowded arena, one by one. Trump brushed aside all GOP challengers in 2024, choosing not to appear on the debate stage with them.
There will be no such governing figure for the upcoming Republican race in 2028. Many GOP observers expect at least four unnamed challengers for Vance: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is poised for a second run. Popular Georgia governor Brian Kemp and former Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin are widely expected to launch their campaigns. The former Secretary of State and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the first term of President Trump Mike Pompeo is expected to join the field and to go along with his career as a professor at West Point and Harvard Law School and years in Congress as a member of Kansas.
That’s the obvious quartet of challengers to Vance, and then there are talented and ambitious senators like Texas’ Ted Cruz and David McCormick of Pennsylvania. Suddenly we have seven very qualified candidates debating the future of the country, and that’s not including members of the President’s cabinet who have run before and again: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum.
President Trump may give in and throw his political weight behind VP Vance – or Secretary Rubio or someone else. No one knows and it is doubtful that the president himself knows. You’ve said several times that the Vance-Rubio ticket will be big and it will be.
What is wrong is “inevitable.” GOP primary voters don’t have to start casting ballots until January 2028. Will they want a “fundamental overhaul” of GOP politics and news? Will they be looking for a candidate who will approve of what President Trump has done in every respect or who will pick and choose between Trump’s record?
There will certainly be an opening night slot for President Trump when the GOP convention meets in whatever city President Trump chooses. His strength will be needed by whoever is nominated, as there are millions of three-time Trump voters who wished the Constitution did not bar a fourth chance to vote for him.
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Parties, however, are an enduring staple of American political life. They are changing and changing, and the GOP of 2028 will be very different from that of 2000, 2012 and even 2024. Its voters may want a change in style or substance or both. As the Democrats hurt themselves on the left edge of the American political spectrum with increasingly anti-American, anti-free market radicals, the Republicans may collectively decide to move to the speech and style of the broad center of the American spirit and conservative political positions.
The muffled sound you hear is from GOP presidential campaigns being organized. We see a clear position among Democrats, from Kamala Harris to Congressman Ro Khanna and Senator Chris Murphy. They can afford to be transparent and out there.
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The Republicans must be very different from their first steps as they are the party of President Trump now. But as the clock ticks down on his second term, every Republican office holder from the Senate to city councils across the country has a hand in choosing the 2028 winner. The GOP games will not start until after the World Cup and possibly until December of this year.
But they’re going to start before the end of the year, and it’s going to be the most interesting season since 2016, and that was a tumultuous, political earthquake that changed American politics for a dozen years. Perhaps Republicans will be in a position to seek a middle ground. It is possible.
Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor and host of “The Hugh Hewitt Show“Hear weekday afternoons from 3 PM to 6 PM ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on the Salem News Channel. Hugh calls Americans home on the East Coast and lunch on the West Coast to more than 400 embassies across the country, and on every broadcast platform where SNC can be seen. He is a regular guest on Fox News Channel on the Brett news program at 6 pm. Ohio and graduation from Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. of television, MSN has also written for MSN television writers and moderated Republican debate scores, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in 2015-16 Hewitt focuses his radio show and column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians on and tens of thousands of Trump Republicans and Donald Bush’s 40 years in broadcasting.
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