GOP coalescing behind Vance as Trump privately dismisses third-term run

[Sogo]

That's a pretty significant headline in the LA Times....

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-12-28/gop-coalescing-behind-vance-as-trump-privately-dismisses-third-term-run

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. This is called "crafting a narrative of inevitability"

With the MAGA movement splintering, the Heritage Foundation in open civil war, I don’t think republicans are coalescing around anyone, let alone the man they detest almost as much as Ted Cruz.

The owner of the LA times, a Trump loving republican, almost certainly has friends in the tech and crypto communities, so I hope nobody here at DU is falling for this.

It’s much more likely the nominee will be someone like Kemp or Youngkin.

[Sogo]

2. The thing I thought was most significant about the headline was Trump

"privately dismissing a third term run." It's sounds so defeatist for him....Like maybe for once he will follow the Constitution. IMO, it adds fuel to the fire about his health not being so good.

[Bayard]

4. Thinking the same thing

Like his doctors have told him--You can forget about that.

[NCDem47]

8. Trump in '28: It's all one big troll to get the opposition worked up.

You can just tell behind close doors they laugh and laugh and laugh at our anguish.

[Iris]

12. He's already bored by this term.

[stopdiggin]

3. if true (meaning the solidification not the article) - I think this represents yet another

misstep on the part of the GOP. JD Vance is virtually no one's idea of a presidential figure.
(and would be destroyed by virtually any Democratic candidate in a debate .. )
(and, yes - fully realize that the MAGA base isn't swayed by things like debates ... but swing voters are.)

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[Bayard]

5. Yes--please run Vance

Everybody hates him.

[multigraincracker]

6. I don't think he will finish this term.

[Raven123]

7. Has anyone told trump?

[Paladin]

9. Gotta love all the damage Vance is doing to himself, lately.

Never ever assume that a degree from a premier law school makes somebody an intelligent person.

[LeftinOH]

10. Is he going to run on "we don't have to apologize for being white" or something?

..because that speech he gave recently at TPUSA had some good clips for Dems to use against him.

[Volaris]

11. Hes going to run on pardoning Donnie, but that only happens IF the MAGA base elects him

And that will depend on how many of them have decided that child rape, isn't a big deal as long as Republicans are doing it.

It's the only thing he can offer the base, that they will agree on.