Prominent GOP Senator Already Rejects JD Vance For President In 2028 | EUROtoday

Sen. Rand Paul isn’t leaping on the JD Vance bandwagon for president in 2028. (Watch the video beneath.)

The Kentucky Republican strongly prompt he wouldn’t again the vp, at the same time as Vance tracks pretty properly in early polling to succeed President Donald Trump.

Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday famous to Paul that Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have already backed Vance.

“Is JD Vance the heir apparent here?” the newsman requested.

Paul at first danced across the query, criticizing the administration’s commerce wars, earlier than Karl elicited a extra particular reply.

“I think there needs to be representatives in the Republican Party who still believe international trade is good, who still believe in free market capitalism, who still believe in low taxes,” Paul mentioned. “It used to separate conservatives and liberals that conservatives thought it was a spending problem — we didn’t want more revenue, we wanted less spending.”

“But now all these pro-tariff protectionists, they love taxes. And so they tax, tax, tax, and then they brag about all the revenue coming in,” Paul continued. “That has never been a conservative position.”

“So I’m going to continue to try to lead a conservative free-market wing in the party, and we’ll see where things lead over time.”

“And that’s not JD Vance?” Karl requested.

Paul hesitated for a second. “No,” he replied.

Paul has opposed Trump and Vance on a number of points these days past tariffs, together with the legally questionable strikes on suspected drug smugglers at sea, the administration’s assaults on six congressional Democrats who made a video reminding service members they will reject “unlawful orders” and the presidential pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker.