Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk said her organization’s efforts to support a potential JD Vance presidential campaign in 2028 are “in the works.”
Kirk’s comments on an episode of The Megyn Kelly Show that was released on Monday were not unexpected.
Her late husband, Charlie Kirk, was an early advocate of Vance during Donald Trump’s vice presidential selection process in 2024, and the two remained close friends until Kirk’s assassination in Utah in September.
But the promise of the group’s backing is a critical acquisition for Vance’s hypothetical future presidential campaign. While Vance remains the most obvious apparent heir to Trump’s MAGA movement, other prominent Republicans have been making subtle moves to position themselves as candidates in 2028.
This woman is going to do to smoky eyes what Hitler did to the toothbrush mustache
The goths will make sure that doesn’t happen. We hate fascists.
Nah. If Huckasands didn’t back when anyone was still pretending that the Mango Mussolini is accountable to anyone didn’t scare people off it, nobody will.
Trump is basically a puppet for The Heritage Foundation, Vance will be exactly the same, just without the mental issues. If anything, that will make it easier to puppet him instead of Trump
the republican mind is a terrible, unfortunate ailment
I don’t know how they jumped from traditional Christian values to actively destroying the government. I need a play-by-play on that.
Please do. If there are any sort of legitimate elections, JD ain’t winning them. His favourability is lower than Trump’s and I doubt they can rescue that. He sounds much more toxic than trump and he reeks of unauthenticity.
“They can’t be dumb enough to vote for trump”
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“They can’t be dumb enough to vote for trump again”
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“They can’t be dumb enough to vote for vance”
Vance can’t generate the same kind of cult of personality that Trump can. The GOP would be sunk without that.
MAGA is a classic cult of personality, and there is no #2. There are plenty of narcissistic morons who think they can be #2, but once Trump assumes room temperature, the knives are going to come out, the backstabbing will commence, and half of the MAGA support will evaporate, and the other half will splinter.
With MAGA burning, it will be the Democrats versus the Sociopathic Oligarchs, and the Dems will have to act boldly and decisively if they want to survive the onslaught of capitalist violence.
100%, a huge portion of the US seems to be aggressively stupid and will continue to vote for Republicans regardless of the leader. The entire US political system needs to be burned down and reconstructed along with massive changes to the education system otherwise, even if a Democrat somehow gets back in, it’s just postponing further fascism when the Republicans return.
TBH I think at this point the US needs to Balkanise itself; I don’t know any other way out of the current mess it’s in
The way out is mass cult de-programming programs first, then arrest/remove/??? the propaganda sources like Fox, Newsmax, OANN, in the first place. Then “provide justice” (edit: there are plenty of legal ways to do this) to the few dozen billionaires causing most of this. Then from there the rest will begin to heal itself, but first you have to cut out the tumor/infection.
Yeah that ain’t happening with out a Balkanizing civil war. Too many guns, too many nukes on too many bases in the backyards of too many psychophants who have been voting for the same political sports team for far too many years
It’s not their dumbness we’d be counting against for Vance though. The racists hate him because of his wife and children. Most everyone else hates him because he’s a charisma vacuum. It’s just the techbros lead by Thiele propping him up.
Couch fucker doesn’t have the charisma to take over.
He might have the money and propaganda machine though
He might. The thing about cults of personality is that they absolutely need a magnetic personality to cultivate around. Trump has proved intuitively capable at offering just that, while Vance has very much not. Money and power don’t make up for a lack of charisma, which has been thoroughly exemplified by Musk and Zuck in recent years.
Vance is not left entirely without a chance at this ofc, but the momentum that brought him to his current office is not the same momentum he’d be riding to the next one up. He would have to ‘git gud’ essentially, and we dont really have any reason to believe he’s capable of it atm.
It’s possible, but I think they’re going to keep shopping around for a more fitting charismatic leader. Vance just doesn’t have the cheeks to fit that saddle, so they’re only going to stick him on it if they fail to find someone they actually like/want.
Man, can you imagine willingly watching the Megyn Kelly show? Out of all of the insane right wing talking heads, she has got to have the most annoying holier than thou voice. Match that with her batshit views, and I think you’ve got new CIA blacksite 24/7 TV material that’d make Cheney crawl back out of his grave to say “hey, isn’t that a bit of a harsh punishment?”
And I guess Ericka Kirk is in this story too. Who really gives a shit? She’s only in the media until Charlie’s death stops being useful, then turning point will replace her with a man (this is still the right wing, after all) and she will then start a podcast and fully fade into relative obscurity.
Good, what a landslide it shall be.
I really don’t understand why they would focus on elevating Vance. He’s never really been a part of their movement, and the base has always known this.
They’d be orders of magnitude pushing a Tucker Carlson/ Candice Owens ticket, which, as a leftist, should be your greatest fear. Tucker Carlson has been able to keep an outsider status with the arms length he’s always kept with the administrations once they are in office. Candice Owens has one of the most popular podcasts in the country. Both have extremely wide reach.
And most importantly, they’ve kept outsider status. And the US is still starving for change, and has been belligerently electing whomever represents that since 2008. Whoever gets to claim that mantle wins the election. And both Tucker Carlson and Candice Owens are far more capable political actors than Vance could ever be. Vance’s only role in the campaign was securing the Silicon Valley oligarch bag. It was the price of admission.
He’s part of the Dark Enlightenment movement, progenitors of Project 2025.
I’m sure she is
“In the works”? Is that what we’re calling it now?
