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JD Vance 2028 presidential ambitions and MAGA politics
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5 DAYS
25 FACTS
2 EVENTS
2 SOURCES
FIRST ENTRY SEP 13
SEP 17 · Day 5
Josh Hawley rules out 2028 White House bid
Josh Hawley was re-elected to the Senate in 2024.
Donald Trump is constitutionally barred from election to a third term.
Josh Hawley is a U.S. Senator from Missouri serving since 2019.
“You cannot win anything without them. You cannot win a primary without them. You cannot win a general election without them. And I would caution anybody who thinks that you can do without them in our voting coalition — you will have a voting coalition of like 10% without religious conservatives, without evangelical Protestants, without conservative Catholics, without conservative Orthodox Jews. So, I’d be real careful about trying to marginalize that coalition,”
JOSH HAWLEY
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SEP 13 · Day 1
JD Vance seeks to avoid Maga schism while keeping faith for 2028
JD Vance has said he drifted from his evangelical upbringing into atheism by the time he joined the US Marines Corps.
Vance attributed Trump's survival of the assassination attempt to divine providence.
Larry Jacobs, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota, said Vance's address amounted to the beginning of 2028 Republican primary competition.