{"id":9119,"date":"2026-08-14T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=9119"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:05:36","slug":"sizing-up-the-2028-republican-presidential-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=9119","title":{"rendered":"Sizing up the 2028 Republican presidential contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can anyone win by distancing themselves from President Donald Trump?<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9114\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49279d037f6bc549b4fa5afc34ae8121-1024x1024.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49279d037f6bc549b4fa5afc34ae8121-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49279d037f6bc549b4fa5afc34ae8121-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49279d037f6bc549b4fa5afc34ae8121-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49279d037f6bc549b4fa5afc34ae8121-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49279d037f6bc549b4fa5afc34ae8121-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49279d037f6bc549b4fa5afc34ae8121.jpg 1777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>(Washington Post illustration; Demetrius Freeman\/The Washington Post; Maxine Wallace\/The Washington Post; iStock)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Who is going to lead the Republican Party after President Donald Trump? \u201cI\u2019d love to run,\u201d Trump said this week of running for an unconstitutional third term. \u201cBut the law is very strong.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=9112\">Truth Social\u2019s sale of fast access to Trump posts draws legal concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A succession fight is brewing over who inherits his MAGA movement, and it\u2019s an open question whether any Republican can build a campaign by breaking away from it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the early field is taking shape for the 2028 Republican primaries. This is our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/06\/02\/ranking-2028-republican-presidential-contenders\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/06\/02\/ranking-2028-republican-presidential-contenders\/\">fourth round of ranking<\/a>. We also regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/13\/sizing-up-2028-democratic-presidential-contenders\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/13\/sizing-up-2028-democratic-presidential-contenders\/\">rank Democrats<\/a>. Trump is unpopular nationally but has strong support within his party, and whomever he endorses would have an immediate head start.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9115\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/150b5b46b2614ccb78222a5ce2c3c546-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/150b5b46b2614ccb78222a5ce2c3c546-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/150b5b46b2614ccb78222a5ce2c3c546-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/150b5b46b2614ccb78222a5ce2c3c546-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/150b5b46b2614ccb78222a5ce2c3c546-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/150b5b46b2614ccb78222a5ce2c3c546-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Vice President JD Vance, seen here with President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is the leading potential contender. (Elizabeth Frantz\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><b>Vice President JD Vance<\/b>: Vance is the obvious heir apparent. He has hewed closely to Trump and is taking on high-profile jobs in the administration: Vance negotiated a nascent peace deal with Iran this summer (it ultimately fell apart) and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/06\/15\/vances-fraud-task-force-is-sweeping-up-legitimate-small-businesses\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/06\/15\/vances-fraud-task-force-is-sweeping-up-legitimate-small-businesses\/\">leading a task force<\/a> to crack down on fraud in federal benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would vote for JD Vance in a heartbeat,\u201d said Kathy Bernier, vice chair of the Chippewa County Republican Party in Wisconsin. \u201cHe\u2019s now experienced all there is to experience on foreign affairs; he\u2019s delved in and is not a sit-by, do-nothing vice president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With more visibility has come more detractors, such as some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/13\/vance-israel-alienating-jewish-gop-donors-00994154\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/13\/vance-israel-alienating-jewish-gop-donors-00994154\">pro-Israel donors<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/24\/knives-are-out-vance-gop-his-allies-say-its-coordinated-op\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/24\/knives-are-out-vance-gop-his-allies-say-its-coordinated-op\/\">a hyper-online contingent on the right<\/a> that has been criticizing his role in the Iran war. \u201cWell, go to hell,\u201d he told his detractors. (Vance frequently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance\/status\/1970897642361135146?lang=en\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance\/status\/1970897642361135146?lang=en\">curses<\/a> at his critics.)<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also been more accepting of the MAGA white nationalist wing of the party than perhaps any other potential contender, asserting that America is a Christian nation,<b> <\/b>refusing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/12\/20\/tucker-carlson-maga-trump-fuentes-antisemitism\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/12\/20\/tucker-carlson-maga-trump-fuentes-antisemitism\/\">forcefully criticize<\/a> the elevation of some neo-Nazi forces in the party and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/don-t-apologize-being-white-195033376.html\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/don-t-apologize-being-white-195033376.html\">celebrating<\/a> that under the Trump administration, \u201cyou don\u2019t have to apologize for being White anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance\u2019s fourth child was born this summer, and he is expected to make a decision on running soon. He\u2019s certainly making moves toward it: He has got a new book out about finding Catholicism, and he\u2019s keeping close relationships with state party officials key to Republican nominating contests. Trump hasn\u2019t endorsed Vance, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/06\/trump-tells-donors-we-need-elect-jd-vp-weighs-his-future\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/06\/trump-tells-donors-we-need-elect-jd-vp-weighs-his-future\/\">he\u2019s thinking about it<\/a>. He has privately told donors he would back Vance, but he has publicly left his options open.<\/p>\n<p>But Republican insiders are watching Vance\u2019s fortunes alongside what happens to their party in November\u2019s midterm elections. If Democrats have a wave year, winning both chambers of Congress, governor\u2019s mansions and state legislatures, it could lower Vance\u2019s presidential stock, given how tied he is to what would be an undeniably unpopular administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s a complete blowout in November for Republicans, then that really hurts JD Vance and helps Marco Rubio,\u201d said Dennis Lennox, a Michigan-based Republican strategist.<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco Rubio:<\/b> Trump\u2019s secretary of state has said he\u2019ll support Vance if Vance runs. And Rubio is certainly busy managing massive tasks from which he\u2019d probably have to step back to run for president: He\u2019s also Trump\u2019s national security adviser and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/11\/us\/politics\/how-marco-rubio-runs-venezuela.html\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/11\/us\/politics\/how-marco-rubio-runs-venezuela.html\">the effective head of Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the breadth of his portfolio only makes him more attractive to some establishment Republicans. \u201cIt\u2019s hard not to see a scenario in which Marco Rubio is a serious contender if he runs,\u201d Lennox said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just that he\u2019s in a position to stop Vance; it\u2019s that he has run before and has shown he can competently handle an immense workload.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Rubio\u2019s natural approach to politics is more of a traditional conservative than MAGA. Some Republican insiders think there\u2019s a lane for that; others don\u2019t see the party quitting Trump\u2019s MAGA movement quite so easily.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9116\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/adfab210a91fd4ffe0e5272dcd712ba0-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/adfab210a91fd4ffe0e5272dcd712ba0-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/adfab210a91fd4ffe0e5272dcd712ba0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/adfab210a91fd4ffe0e5272dcd712ba0-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/adfab210a91fd4ffe0e5272dcd712ba0-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/adfab210a91fd4ffe0e5272dcd712ba0.jpg 1758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Trump holds a gold nugget he was presented as Secretary of State Marco Rubio watches during a roundtable on the U.S. mining industry last week. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9117\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8edab913038eb42290060cb6c7d042c5-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8edab913038eb42290060cb6c7d042c5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8edab913038eb42290060cb6c7d042c5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8edab913038eb42290060cb6c7d042c5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8edab913038eb42290060cb6c7d042c5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8edab913038eb42290060cb6c7d042c5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) could be positioning himself as an alternative to Vance. (Finn Gomez\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><b>A number of Republican senators:<\/b> \u201cThere\u2019s no one else but Vance and Rubio,\u201d asserted Stan Barnes, an Arizona Republican strategist. But if both didn\u2019t run, their campaigns fell apart, or a combination of the two possibilities, several Republican senators might emerge from the wings.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=9111\">Alex Vindman knows he needs to \u2018prove it\u2019 in Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz of Texas appears to be positioning himself as an alternative to Vance specifically. While Vance says all views in the party should be welcome, Cruz is advocating for his party to ostracize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/10\/31\/carlson-fuentes-heritage-antisemitism\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/10\/31\/carlson-fuentes-heritage-antisemitism\/\">MAGA pundit Tucker Carlson<\/a> for interviewing a white nationalist who said Adolf Hitler is \u201ccool.\u201d Behind closed doors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/12\/22\/ted-cruz-president-2028-vance-maga\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/12\/22\/ted-cruz-president-2028-vance-maga\/\">Cruz has said<\/a> Vance\u2019s foreign policy views are dangerously isolationist. He\u2019s pushing a college-sports-regulation bill and has said Trump should arm Iranian protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Hawley of Missouri, another potential candidate, has spoken out against his party\u2019s cuts to Medicaid, which could hurt rural hospitals; voted to limit Trump\u2019s fighting in Venezuela; opposed cryptocurrency legislation widely seen as friendly to the industry; and emerged as a leading GOP voice against data centers.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Cotton of Arkansas is as conservative as they come and was vetted as a vice-presidential pick for Trump. He recently opposed a House-passed bill to eliminate daylight saving time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Current or former Republican governors:<\/b> Ron DeSantis, Florida\u2019s fiery, socially conservative governor, ran for president against Trump in the 2024 primaries and remains a fixture on Fox News and at conservative events. He can tout running a big state and winning reelection by a large margin, but his term as governor ends in 2027, so he would have to build momentum for a presidential run while out of public office.<\/p>\n<p>Former Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin is helping fellow Republicans campaign for governor in swing states. He recently launched a group to push school choice, building off his win in Virginia five years ago, which was tied to some parental anger over a lack of control over their children\u2019s education during the covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><b>Pete Hegseth<\/b>: Trump\u2019s defense secretary has remained in his post despite controversy after controversy. He\u2019s a leading figure in Trump\u2019s unpopular conflict with Iran and is popular on the far right for his unapologetic evangelicalism mixed with attacks on liberals. \u201cWe don\u2019t trust in woke,\u201d he has said. \u201cWe trust in God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Robert F. Kennedy Jr:<\/b> Trump\u2019s health secretary remains perennially in the news, specifically for his attempts to dramatically remake vaccine policy in a way that health experts worry will leave kids vulnerable to diseases. (A court has stopped his changes, though Trump just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/10\/trump-administration-order-would-upend-nations-childhood-vaccine-schedule\/\" rel=\"\">signed an executive order<\/a> reissuing many of them.) Kennedy is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/08\/10\/rfk-jr-slated-unveil-plan-targeting-loophole-that-allows-chemicals-food-supply\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/08\/10\/rfk-jr-slated-unveil-plan-targeting-loophole-that-allows-chemicals-food-supply\/\">working<\/a> on his arguably more popular idea: to get chemicals out of food supplies.<\/p>\n<p><b>Donald Trump Jr.<\/b>: Trump\u2019s eldest son has never held public office, but he is an adviser and confidant to his father. He seems to be making the case that he\u2019s the rightful heir to the MAGA throne, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/politics\/2025\/10\/is-america-ready-for-another-trump-in-the-white-house-new-poll-suggests-republicans-are.html\" rel=\"\">speaking<\/a> in the fall of his desire to run: \u201cThat calling is there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Republicans who might run as alternatives to Trumpism:<\/b> In his previous White House runs, Trump has had at least one opponent framing themselves as the alternative to MAGA. With Trump off the ballot, there could be more room for candidates to make a run at Republican voters, particularly moderate ones, who want less MAGA in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Republican insiders mention Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who took on Trump in 2020 over election fraud lies and is deeply conservative; Nikki Haley, a former Trump administration official who was widely seen as the last non-Trump candidate left standing in 2024; Sen. Rand Paul (Kentucky) who<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noosphere.app\/sen-rand-paul-without-question-iran-attack-is-not-constitutional\/\" rel=\"\"> recently said<\/a> he\u2019ll consider running to counter economic populism; and outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, whom Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/20\/takeaways-primaries-georgia-kentucky-pennsylvania-alabama-more\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/20\/takeaways-primaries-georgia-kentucky-pennsylvania-alabama-more\/\">helped to oust from Congress in a primary<\/a> after his push to release the Epstein files.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9118\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9bd55d376c151536b01664c37c1ee05f-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9bd55d376c151536b01664c37c1ee05f-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9bd55d376c151536b01664c37c1ee05f-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9bd55d376c151536b01664c37c1ee05f-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9bd55d376c151536b01664c37c1ee05f-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9bd55d376c151536b01664c37c1ee05f-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Tucker Carlson has since broken with the president. (Seth Wenig\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><b>Tucker Carlson or another media celebrity:<\/b> The former Fox News host has done the unthinkable: effectively broken from Trump and kept a media following (so far). This spring, Carlson said he was \u201csorry for misleading people\u201d about Trump. The Iran war seemed to be the breaking point, though there were many fissures leading up to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the Iran war sets up Tucker, especially if the war goes badly, really well to run for president in \u201928,\u201d journalist Jason Zengerle, who has written a recent biography of Carlson, said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/business-work\/2026\/jason-zengerle-tucker-carlson-unraveling-conservative-mind\/\" rel=\"\">Poynter<\/a>. \u201cHe can hang that war around JD Vance\u2019s neck, around Marco Rubio\u2019s neck. \u2026 And he can say: \u2018I was against this from the start. 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