((The hill) – President Donald Trump initially dominates the political stage. But attention will soon be postponed to the 2028 race.
Trump sometimes entertained the idea of ​​looking for a third term – an idea that was promoted by some of the most combative voices in the Maga world, such as Steve Bannon.
The almost universal expert view is that such a search would be strikingly unconstitutional. Trump would also be on election day 2028 82.
Assuming that Trump actually leaves the White House for one last time at the end of his second term, the fight for him will take place.
The hill published similar rankings for Democrats in 2028. The Republican field is currently standing.
1. Vice JD President Vance
Vice President Vance is the most obvious legacy of Trump’s coat.
One reason for the reason is uncomplicated: he is the much adolescent vice president of an incumbent president.
But there are also more vances -specific factors.
A long ago, the Vice President gave up the criticisms of Trump, which he once paved. Despite the power of this criticism – he considered a friend in 2016, whether Trump could be “America’s Hitler” in the end – he seems to have been awarded by the Maga base.
Vance helps with the connection to Trump’s workers’ supporters with his celebrated education, as he reminds him in his book “Hillbilly Ely”.
The Vice President also informs Trump’s isolationist instincts in foreign policy – a tendency that was most obviously seen when the duo insulted the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office at the beginning of this year.
Vance is often combative with the media, but he didn’t make many enemies in the GOP of the Trump era. Figures such as Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, are all controversial within the party.
There are still question marks about some of the political instincts of Vances. During the campaign of last year, a Jibbe came back over “childless cat ladies” in 2021 to follow it.
But at the moment there is no real doubt that Vance is the Republican front manager who follows Trump.
2. Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump’s high position on this list is less rooted in his political skills, which are in the best case unproven, than in the plausible possibility that he would benefit from the influence of his father towards the party.
The older Trump was able to survive numerous furors – two officials, January 6th, and convictions of crimes in 34 cases – because he inspires such a passionate personal loyalty from its base.
The question is whether the father’s supporters would transfer their loyalty to his eldest son.
For the time being, the younger Trump is primarily restricted to aggressive social media contributions, an equally fiery podcast called “triggered” and tends for its business interests.
A doubt about the younger Trump is whether he would bring the same negative as his father – both men are largely detested by liberals – without the same positive results with the GOP basis.
Nevertheless, a second Trump candidacy would have to be taken automatically seriously.
3. Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.)
Sen. Tom Cotton’s decision to issue the 2024 race to issue GOP nomination looks afterwards.
Trump would certainly have been the Victor, against whom he had reached each other – and Cotton’s image with the Maga believers was not accompanied by any perceived infidelity.
Cotton, a veteran of the army that served in Iraq and Afghanistan, has a protected touch for the type of political positioning, which has a visceral attraction for many Republican voters.
A current example is his insistence on the fact that the former special advisor Jack Smith should be examined – according to Cotton’s view – who want to influence the 2024 elections through his criminal probes from Trump. Smith emphasized this by his lawyers.
Cotton is a mighty speaker and media artist with a Hawkian view of outside affairs as Vance.
He would be an immediate top animal candidate if he runs in 2028.
4. Senator Ted Cruz (Texas)
The GOP primary school for 2016 seems to be very, very long. But at that time Senator Ted Cruz was by far Trump’s most sedate rival for GOP nomination.
The 2016 campaign was also bitter, with Trump bizarre reproaches against Cruz ‘father and woman and the Texas Senator struck back into benefits in kind.
Cruz called Trump a “pathological liar” and knew it known to support him at this year’s Republican National Convention.
Since then, Cruz has positioned itself in a much more trim -friendly way and is one of the most celebrated Republicans nationwide.
There is no doubt about the ardent conservatism of the Senator in Texas in cultural and economic issues.
The bigger question is whether it is too suspicious in some Maga quartals to win.
5. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio suffers from some of the same problems as Cruz, although his current position in the heart of the Trump administration could aid him.
Like Cruz in 2016, Rubio ran against Trump and threw a lot of verbal barbens the path of the president. Trump mocked his rival at the time as “Lil” Marco.
Now Rubio is a common presence on television and is violently defending Trump’s foreign policy approach.
However, Rubio is also able to bridge the gap between the isolationism of the Maga movement “America First” and the previously assumed republicanism in the elderly style.
Nevertheless, there is often the feeling that Rubio has never completely experienced his promise.
First elected as a senator who represents Florida 15 years ago, a 2013 Time Magazine Cover Rubio invoiced as “the Republican Redeemer”.
Republican voters have never quite agreed.
6. Florida governor Ron Desantis
Governor Ron Desantis has recorded the trump Loyal Loyal, which contributed to the rehabilitation with the voters, the Trump Loyal Loyal, Alligator Alcatraz, the highly controversial immigration finding facility in Floridas Everglades.
Trump visited the facility in summer, but it is actually led by the state of Florida – and ultimately by Desantis.
A judge ordered the closed facility in one case that Desantis is controversial. At the beginning of this month, the governor also announced that his state would open a second institution that he baptized “Deportation Depot”.
It is the type of move in which Desantis appeared in the 2024 nomination process as Trump’s most sedate rival.
But in the end, this campaign was very overwhelming – and uniquely injured Desantis’ standing and future ambitions.
7. Sen. Josh Hawley (Mon.)
Senator Josh Hawley was able to make a surprise in the 2028 race if he should run.
In addition to Trump himself, he is the Republican who supports the working class more than any other.
Hawley is, for example, a mighty critic of stock trading by members of the congress and made an unlikely alliance with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) To try to limit interest rates to credit cards.
He is also a Pro laboratory than most Republicans, an attitude that is reflected in movements like him that push a legislative template that have urged employers not to employ the delay in tactics when negotiating union contracts.
Critics on the left see Hawley’s efforts as a pose, especially in view of his convinced social conservatism. He is also viewed with a suspicion of some members of his own party.
However, a Hawley bid is one of the most fascinating possibilities for 2028.
8. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA.)
MP Marjorie Taylor Greene would be the most controversial possible choice by the GOP – a title for which there is tough competition.
The Georgia Congressman has been an inflammatory personality in American politics since its first place in 2020. She got tangled with numerous democrats and once got into a particularly heated contraceptive with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.).
But Greene also mixed it with other Republicans such as Rep. Lauren Boebert (Colorado) and Maga influencers like Laura Loomer.
Greene under the GOP was fascinating to oppose Israeli actions in the Gaza. In July she was the first Republican member of the congress to describe these documents as “genocide”.
The following month, she caused another sensation by accusing her own party of “returning to America first, and the workers and only regular Americans”.
Is it selectable nationally? Many people would say no, and it would be a gigantic game of chance for the GOP role to nominate them at all.
9. Sen. Tim Scott (SC)
Senator Tim Scott, a known more straightforward -to -all presence, even in an increasingly pointed Senate, is well looked at by Trump and practically any faction in today’s GOP.
He is also the only black republican senator, a status that the GOP might aid to continue with black voters if he somehow made it to nomination.
However, Scott has never achieved traction as a candidate, and there is no obvious reason to assume that he would exceed this list in 2028 through people.
