{"id":57959,"date":"2026-11-08T07:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T01:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57959"},"modified":"2026-11-08T07:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T01:46:47","slug":"after-midterm-rout-vance-tries-to-build-his-own-2028-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/after-midterm-rout-vance-tries-to-build-his-own-2028-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"After midterm rout, Vance tries to build his own 2028 brand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters :\u00a0 Late in his blitz to salvage Republicans’ midterm fortunes, Vice President JD Vance shifted strategy. He talked less about President Donald Trump and more about the issues that define his own political identity.
\nVance argued the case \u200bfor Republicans, who lost control of Congress in Tuesday\u2019s vote, almost exclusively through the lens of his policy portfolio, according to a Reuters review of half a dozen speeches since the \u200cRepublican convention in September.<\/p>\n

He bypassed Trump’s signature policies including the Iran war and deportations as polls showed the president’s sagging popularity dragging down Republican office-seekers.<\/p>\n

The change was deliberate, according to two people familiar with the strategy. Vance and his advisers saw the issues he championed \u2014 economic nationalism, foreign policy restraint, and public safety \u2014 as politically potent subjects he could address with authority. While Trump embraced them as part of his MAGA movement, Vance had emerged as their lead crusader, the people said.<\/p>\n

The shift offered an early glimpse of \u200bhow the 42-year-old vice president could chart his own course as Republicans begin looking beyond Trump.Vance hasn\u2019t said whether he will run for president in 2028, and Trump hasn\u2019t endorsed him or anyone else. \u200bBut Vance is viewed as a leading potential contender who some Republican officials say will need to inherit much of Trump\u2019s coalition while separating himself from his boss’s \u2060baggage.<\/p>\n

Vance took a more public step on Wednesday toward reinforcing his own political brand with an unusually blunt election postmortem. In a social media post, he blamed the Iran war for Republicans\u2019 midterm defeat and laid out a \u200bplatform for a Republican rebound.<\/p>\n

He called for a swift end to the conflict and urged Republicans to focus on affordability, reevaluate foreign relations and overhaul the US relationship with Israel.<\/p>\n

Trump has called Americans\u2019 affordability concerns a Democratic \u201choax.\u201d He \u200blaunched a war against Iran following sustained lobbying from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump went on to endorse Netanyahu in the Israeli election.<\/p>\n

The post for the first time put Vance openly on the side of ending the war. Three people familiar with the White House and Vance’s communications told Reuters that the vice president was not breaking with Trump and said White House chief of staff Susie Wiles knew in advance about Vance’s post.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Trump reshuffled senior White House leadership, replacing \u200bWiles with Stephen Miller in a move that suggests the White House plans to double down on some of Trump\u2019s more hardline policies.<\/p>\n

Trump has acknowledged the Iran war played a role in the Republican rout because of the \u200bresulting high gas prices but has continued to defend it. “I would have done nothing different,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
\nReuters could not determine whether Trump was aware of the post in advance.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, endorsed Vance’s remarks \u200con social media, \u2060along with some conservative allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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