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Vice President JD Vance’s Cloudy Future

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Vice President JD Vance delivers a speech on the White House campus in Washington, D.C., April 1, 2026.

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Phil argued that it would make sense for to wait until 2032 to run for president; over in the Washington Post, Ramesh argued that Vance will never have a better opportunity to win the GOP nomination and “the blue tidal wave drowned a lot of Republican candidates. The thing about tides, though, is that they go back out.”

At the tail end of today’s Morning Jolt, I noted that Sohrab Ahmari, a journalist who’s friendly with Vance, is speculating that may “harbors a semiconscious wish that no one can or should succeed him at the head of the MAGA column.” The headline on his column: “Donald Trump is trying to destroy JD Vance.”

Jim Geraghty

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Jim Geraghty

Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent of National Review.

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