{"id":28564,"date":"2025-12-29T16:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=28564"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:58:06","slug":"top-republican-secretly-vying-to-challenge-vance-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=28564","title":{"rendered":"Top Republican Secretly Vying To Challenge Vance In 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A leading Republican senator is reportedly vying to challenge Vice President JD Vance for the 2028 GOP presidential nomination, according to a Monday report. Sen. Ted Cruz is reportedly privately running down Vance in conversations with donors as he weighs a possible White House run.<\/p>\n

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Cruz, the last major challenger to Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican primary, has not publicly acknowledged presidential ambitions. Still, two unnamed sources allegedly\u00a0told The Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0that the Texas senator is seriously considering another bid\u2014suggesting the early jockeying and quiet sniping for 2028 are already underway.<\/p>\n

The Texas senator also appears to be positioning himself for a looming clash with Vance over the nomination.<\/p>\n

Vance is widely viewed as the heir apparent to the MAGA movement and the natural successor to Donald Trump, even though Trump has not formally endorsed Vance or anyone else, for that matter.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAccording to the Post, Cruz has been criticizing Vance\u2019s foreign-policy views in chats with GOP donors, complaining that they are overly isolationist. Cruz has also allegedly told a close ally that he\u2019s been encouraged to run,\u201d the Daily Beast noted, citing the original reporting.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe is said to have been energized by his outspoken criticism of what he calls \u2018Jew hatred and Israel bashing\u2019 within the GOP following the war in Gaza\u2014an issue that has led him to repeatedly clash with former Fox News host and podcaster Tucker Carlson,\u201d the DB added.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan Ted help craft or meld together the traditional Republican approach with the new reality of what the Republican Party is now?\u201d Daron Shaw, a political science professor at the University of Texas, told the Post. \u201cIt\u2019s a heavy lift.\u201d<\/p>\n