GOP Crowd Chants '48' at Vance Speech
GOP Crowd Chants '48' at Vance Speech
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Vice President JD Vance was met with chants of "48" at the Republican National Committee's midterm convention in Dallas on Thursday — a crowd signal that Republicans want him to be the 48th president.
The chants started at a closed-door Republican breakfast Thursday morning, according to Newsmax, and returned that night when the crowd interrupted his keynote address, The Washington Times reported.
Vance, 42, delivered the penultimate speech at a convention built around the November midterms. President Trump headlined the second and final night.
Timeline
Vance is greeted with chants of "48" at a closed-door Republican breakfast in Dallas, an apparent reference to a potential 2028 presidential bid, as he prepares for his convention address.
Vance speaks at the RNC's midterm convention in Dallas and is interrupted again by chants of "48!" from the crowd.
Trump headlines the second and final night of the convention.
Reactions
The Washington Times described the convention hall crowd as making it clear Vance was their choice to succeed Trump, and cast the speech as Republicans getting a preview of 2028.
Bloomberg reported that Vance struck a populist tone on housing affordability and urged voters to back Republicans in November even if they have misgivings about the Trump administration.
Vance used part of the night to hit Democratic Senate candidates. The Hill reported he sharply criticized James Talarico — the Texas state lawmaker running against Attorney General Ken Paxton for retiring Sen. John Cornyn's seat — in Talarico's own backyard.
He also pushed back at Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, who suggested Vance's grandfather was a racist who would not have approved of Usha Vance because she is of Indian descent. Vance called it the work of a "party of hatred," per The Washington Times.
What's Next
The midterm elections are in November, with the Texas Senate race between Paxton and Talarico and the Michigan race featuring El-Sayed among the contests Vance singled out.
Vance has not announced a 2028 campaign. The convention crowd's chant is the clearest sign yet of where the party's activists want him to go after Trump's term.
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The "48" chant refers to the next president — Trump is the 45th and 47th president, so the 48th would be his successor.
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