A former Trump world insider is predicting during a podcast interview that Vice President JD Vance may not ascend to the MAGA throne at all, as some political observers have presumed.
Anthony Scaramucci, one of Trump's communications directors during his first administration, joined The Daily Beast's Joana Coles on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" to discuss who will inherit the MAGA movement from Trump when he leaves politics.
Scaramucci, who worked for Trump for just 10 days and has since become a very vocal critic, said he thinks there will be a "fight" for the leadership role — one that could significantly hurt the movement.
"There'll be a leadership vacuum in the Republican Party, and there'll be a fight, and we'll see what happens," Scaramucci said, adding that he would like to "break the populist hold" on the GOP.
Scaramucci also said that Vance seems to be the front-runner to inherit MAGA from Trump.
"JD Vance looks very promising right now because he's in the lane," Scaramucci said. "He just had dinner with Trump at, you know, at the residence, the Naval Observatory, the vice president's residence. He looks very promising right now, but he will implode."
"He will go into the Trump wood chipper...because, like William Shakespeare wrote about, the old guy does not want the new guy to replace him," he continued.