MILWAUKEE — The delegates here at the Republican National Convention are not a tough crowd when it comes to Donald Trump. They’re instinctively impressed by just about anything the former president does. But they were particularly impressed by his pick for vice president on Monday — so much so that Sen. J.D. Vance is already being talked about as the next GOP presidential nominee.
“He’s someone that’s young and can carry a lot of that sort of America First, MAGA momentum into the future,” Donald Trump Jr. told NOTUS, “so we don’t just revert sort of back to a neocon, RINO nonsense that we’ve been dealing with for a while.”
Trump Jr. — the former president’s oldest son — has been a prominent Vance advocate. He was essential in getting his father to endorse Vance in the 2022 GOP primary, which pushed him over the edge in a crowded field of Senate candidates. But Vance has also been a favorite among the most MAGA Republicans out there, yet another indication that Trump is leaning into his reddest instincts rather than trying to temper himself.