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Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have yet to be sworn in as president and vice president respectively after their 2024 victory and Fox News is already looking towards the 2028 presidential election when Trump will be ineligible to run.

According to Fox's Paul Steinhauser, the Ohio Republican who Trump tapped as his running mate has the inside track to the 2028 GOP nomination but it is not a done deal with the current head of Republican National Committee (RNC) saying they won't put their finger on the scale for any candidate.

By all accounts, Vance is the heir to the MAGA crown, with Republican consultant Dave Carney calling the Ohio Republican "the guy to beat," and adding, "The vice president will be in the catbird seat. No question about it."

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GOP strategist David Kochel, agreed, but cautioned, "There will be no shortage of people looking at it. But most people looking at it are seeing the relative strength of the Trump victory and the movement."

According to Fox's Steinhauser, there will likely be others in the GOP who have long had their eye on the White House who will be testing the waters after having made previous runs.

With Carney suggesting a "possible rough four years for the Trump/Vance administration" would hand challengers to Vance "opportunities," Fox's Steinhuaser pointed to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX), Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, 2024 runner-up Nikki Haley and far-right Sen. Tom Cotton, also of Arkansas, as possible candidates.

According to the Fox report, "DeSantis, who sources say Trump has considered as a plan B for Defense secretary if his nominee Pete Hegseth runs into trouble, has his eyes on another White House run," adding that Cruz, once thought to be in trouble in 2024 waltzed away with a six-point win in his re-election bid.

As for Huckabee Sanders, Steinhauser wrote, "The first-term conservative governor of Arkansas is a well-known figure in MAGA world, thanks to her tenure as Trump's longest-serving White House press secretary during his first administration. The 42-year-old Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas governor and former two-time presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, has also grabbed national attention for delivering the GOP's response to President Biden's 2023 State of the Union address."

Also popping up on the list are Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy who will be part of Trump's unfunded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after Jan. 20th.

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Donald Trump's vanquished Republican primary foe has fighting words when it comes to the president-elect's top Cabinet picks.

The former United Nations ambassador on Wednesday lashed out against Fox News host Pete Hegseth and former Reps. Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard on her podcast "Nikki Haley Live."

"There's gonna be a lot of issues getting Matt Gaetz confirmed as attorney general," said Haley. "It's hard to start a confirmation when you have allegations of illicit drug use and sex parties with minors."...

Donald Trump has reportedly made a new job offer for his administration, but it's raising eyebrows among those who say it could risk the GOP's likely majority in the House.

It's expected that Republicans will control the House, but it's still possible that Democrats could take the lead and, even if the GOP prevails, it will be a tight majority.

According to Kaitlan Collins of CNN, that tight majority could be made even tighter with the former and incoming president's newest staffing decision. ...

"Fox & Friends" host Brian Kilmeade on Friday seemed to push former President Donald Trump to take up former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on her offer to help him in the final stretch of the campaign.

However, Trump seemed more interested in rubbing Haley's face in the fact that he defeated her in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.

After being asked by Kilmeade if he'd have Haley campaign with him, Trump indicated a willingness to have the former South Carolina governor stump for him in battleground states over the next two-and-a-half weeks....

Failed Republican presidential nominee Nikki Haley drew outrage and scorn from the left and right Tuesday when she announced the release of her 97 delegates whom she urged to vote for Donald Trump, the convicted felon, former president and her bitter rival for the GOP's presidential nomination.

The former South Carolina governor called for Republican unity just days before the Republican National Convention gathers in Milwaukee on July 15, Politico reported Tuesday afternoon.

“The nominating convention is a time for Republican unity,” Haley will say in a statement seen by Politico. "We need a president who will hold our enemies to account, secure our border, cut our debt, and get our economy back on track. I encourage my delegates to support Donald Trump next week in Milwaukee.”...

The big show in Atlanta may be Thursday evening, but the days leading up to the first presidential debate have been filled with a flurry of campaign events that put on display how each side plans to win a state that narrowly backed President Joe Biden in 2020.

On the Democratic side, Republicans took centerstage on the eve of the debate and issued dire warnings about the threat to democracy if former President Donald Trump is put back in the White House.

A press conference held at the state Capitol Wednesday featured former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and former Illinois GOP Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who have both endorsed Biden, and a former police officer, Harry Dunn, who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. ...

People in President Donald Trump’s orbit noticed an unsettling change after Republicans were dealt crushing midterm losses, according to author Michael Wolff.

Wolff, a journalist who has written several books about Trump, said on Thursday’s episode of “Inside Trump’s Head” that sources described a visible change in the president after Tuesday’s election, when Democrats seized control of both the House and Senate.

“The other interesting thing that I heard from two people, and they found it interesting and a little frightening, was that the day after he seemed markedly older,” Wolff told co-host Joanna Coles....

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart had nothing but praise for “60 Minutes” personality Ross Douthat for his follow-up questions with Donald Trump in an interview aired Sunday night.

But what he really enjoyed was getting the president defending making money hand over fist with a question asked about former President Joe Biden, often called “Sleepy Joe” by Trump when he attempts to malign the former president’s mental acuity.

In the clip, at about the 6:45 minute mark, Douthat brought up reports that Trump now has a net worth of about $3 billion as he makes business deals while sitting in the Oval Office....

An election lawyer fresh from a deep-red state's ballot count says one embattled MAGA senator has hit a dead end.

Norm Eisen, the former White House ethics czar who served as counsel to House Democrats during President Donald Trump's first impeachment, told progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen in a Saturday episode of his YouTube show that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) has no realistic path left to beat Democratic challenger Scott Colom. "It's a mathematical impossibility at this point for Senator Hyde-Smith," Eisen said.

Eisen, who said he spent three days in Mississippi and planned to head back the next day, pegged Colom's lead as "approaching a 3,000-vote margin." He compared the count to the 2000 Florida recount he worked on, when the gap bounced around in the hundreds....