During an appearance on MSNBC on Friday morning, journalist David Drucker of the conservative Dispatch made the case that Donald Trump gave his approval to Vice President J.D. Vance pulling double duty as a chief fundraiser for the Republican National Committee (RNC).
As he explained to the hosts of "Morning Joe," there is a general belief that the sitting president is allowing Vance to position himself as the heir apparent to the MAGA movement and, therefore, the 2028 GOP presidential nomination, but that got push-back from former Democratic political adviser Symone Sanders Townsend who was skeptical.
According to Drucker, "I think the way to understand this is that it puts him in front of every donor. It integrates him with the Republican National Committee which is going to, of course, run the 2028 primary."
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"You know, the Republicans that I've talked to tell me that some of them are speculating that there won't be a primary and that it will basically be J.D's [nomination] to have," he added, "This arrangement with a sitting vice president as finance chair has never happened before and to them, because this is something that the RNC came up with, according to my sources, brought to Trump's political team and then the president signed off on it personally and there's no other way it would have happened."
That led Sanders Townsend, who worked in President Joe Biden's White House, to cast doubt on Trump's motivation for approving the new duties.
'My final thought is I used to work for a vice president and let me just tell you, if Joe Biden had made Kamala Harris the finance chair of the DNC, the stories would be he does not want her anywhere near the Oval Office, and he does not have confidence in her ability to work as a governing partner on this agenda," she suggested. "So I understand what the sources at the RNC are saying –– I just know how it works and I'm skeptical."
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