Vice President J.D. Vance is positioned as the heir to the MAGA movement.

But Vance recently learned some bad news.

That’s because Sean Hannity said six words that turned into the biggest threat to J.D. Vance in 2028.

The GOP establishment wants to field a challenger to Vice President Vance in the 2028 primary.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is auditioning for that role with his daily attacks on Tucker Carlson, who serves as a proxy for Vance due to their friendship.

Establishment Republicans want to banish the MAGA movement once President Trump leaves office.

Vance supports Trump’s tariffs, draws a hard line on illegal immigration, and supports President Trump in avoiding an endless war in Iran that establishment Republicans like Lindsey Graham, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board would like to trap Trump into.

Ted Cruz opposed Trump’s tariffs, supports more immigration into the United States, and backs a lengthy regime change war with Iran.

In 2028, Vance may get squeezed from both the right and the center.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis entered the 2024 Presidential primary as the great hope for establishment Republicans looking to move the party past Trump.

DeSantis wanted to run as “Trump without the chaos.”

But DeSantis ran a poor campaign, getting sucked into the Never Trump vortex, such as making fun of Trump when Alvin Bragg arrested him on sham charges in New York.

DeSantis also hurt his brand by signing a hate speech law for Florida.

However, DeSantis still has the Presidential bug.

“Will you run for president again?” Sean Hannity asked DeSantis on a recent episode of his podcast.

DeSantis didn’t rule out running and made it clear he still considers himself the true successor to President Trump.

“We’ll see. I mean, you know, I think that, in ’24, like in Iowa, the people that voted for Trump, if he wasn’t running, I would’ve gotten like 90% of those people –they were conservative voters. They didn’t want the non-conservative, you know, they wanted me,” DeSantis began.

“But the timing didn’t work out obviously for that. So you just gotta see what happens,” DeSantis concluded.

Polls show that, like in 2016 and 2024, the Never Trump establishment’s hopes of expunging Trumpism and MAGA from the GOP look like they are on a collision course with failure.

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