Vice President JD Vance may be the best thing to happen to the Republican Party since, well, his current boss. He’s clearly an up-and-comer; young, bright, thinks on his feet, has a compelling back story and a beautiful family. Best of all, he doesn’t take any guff from the legacy media – or anyone else.
Now the Republicans are giving him a significant role in the 2026 mid-terms. That’s unusual, for a vice president to be this ingrained in the party during a mid-term election, but if there’s one thing the Trump/Vance administration has done, it’s to upset a lot of the old norms. That’s for the best.
Vice President JD Vance will serve as the Republican National Committee’s finance chair, telling Fox News Digital that he will work with the party to “fully enact the MAGA mandate” and grow the Republican majority in Congress in 2026.
This is the first time in the history of the GOP that a sitting vice president will serve in the role. An RNC official initially said the group’s Executive Committee voted unanimously to confirm Vance in the role but later clarified that Vance was appointed by RNC Chair Michael Whatley.
An RNC official told Fox News Digital that Vance serving as finance chair is “unprecedented” and shows “just how much the White House and the RNC are in lockstep this cycle.”
It is nice, I have to say, to see the GOP this coherent for once. I was involved in some local politics in Colorado when we lived there, in the first few years after the last Republican Governor of the Centennial State, Bill Owens, left office in 2007. I had occasion to speak with Governor Owens shortly after that; his kids and ours went to the same school, and he had been our state representative when I was a precinct captain, so we knew each other. The Colorado GOP was in the process of forming a circular firing squad, and I asked Bill if he was involved in the party anymore, but he indicated he was leaving politics for good. He did some presidential campaign work, but not much as far as Colorado was concerned.
We all know what happened to Colorado, of course. A party that isn’t unified has a much harder time winning elections; Colorado was, in those days, a pretty good example.
Vance, in a statement to Fox News Digital, reflected on Trump’s “historic election victory, taking back the White House and helping Republicans regain control of the Senate and retain control of the House.”
“But to fully enact the MAGA mandate and President Trump’s vision that voters demanded, we must keep and grow our Republican majorities in 2026,” Vance said.
The GOP now, at least at the national level, is sticking together. Could it be that we’ve all learned a thing or two?
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Things have certainly changed. President Trump’s re-election was a serious win, but we need someone who can carry this thing forward. JD Vance could do that – but the GOP has, nationally, a wealth of good young candidates, whereas the Democrats have… well, not much. The momentum is with us. We have better candidates. We have better policies. We just need to stick together. That’s not easy for conservatives (and orders of magnitude harder for libertarians) but President Trump is proving to be a pretty decent cat-herder, and JD Vance is certainly smart enough to pick up that skill. And his taking this key role in 2026 would seem to indicate that he’s already looking forward to 2028.
There’s an old saying about elections and majorities: “First, you have to win.” JD Vance is, I think, the right guy to help us win. And it’s pretty certain that by 2026, we won’t be tired of winning yet.
President Trump’s second term has radical Democrats in panic mode, Vice President Vance is a rising star, and between them they have Democrats coming unglued.
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