Who Will Step Up after Trump?
He's sounding more and more like a guy who may not be sticking around, despite the Trump ‘28 merch he’s pushing.
It’s time for some of these GOP wannabes to wake up and kick off the 2028 campaign. That means you, Tom Cotton, Rand Paul, Ron DeSantis, and even Teddy Cruz.
Because Trump is sounding more and more like a guy who may not be sticking around, despite the Trump ‘28 merch he’s pushing.
Talking about trying to get into heaven. Desperate for a Nobel as a legacy. His plan is to take the plane with him.
And then there’s his hands and ankles. The man is UNWELL. He main-lined cholesterol his whole life and his idea of a salad is ketchup.
He’s even entertaining questions about who will succeed him — and giving names …And none of you are on his list.
J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio are making moves. Vance is standing behind Trump every time there’s a camera in the Oval Office and inserting himself into every conversation possible — doing media hits that may or not be sanctioned by the press shop. Even saying he’s ready to step in if something goes wrong with Trump’s health!
Meanwhile, Marco is running around the world and taking point on Ukraine. Talk about upping a profile.
Are you just going to wait until the old man says he can’t do it and stops flirting with sticking around in ‘29? Because he will keep talking about a third term right up until … forever. He’s never going to stop. He’ll talk about running for a third term ten seconds after he announces he won’t do it.
So when are you going to make a move? Are you going to wait until after the 2026 midterms? By then it’ll be too late. If the generic ballot keeps going this way you’ll be nothing but a small cog in the minority as Vance takes the lead negotiating with the democrats and building himself into an unstoppable force on the Republican side.
Or, worse yet for you — they do the 25th Shuffle and install Vance. Now he’s got two years to convince the public he deserves a shot at multiple terms. And then it could be ten years before you get another chance.
And none of this even entertains the very real possibility that the “powers that be” just plain rig the primary for whoever Trump chooses. Or that the system rigging we are watching in Texas goes much further and Vance just illegally takes over.
Then you don’t have a chance. You’ll be forever the bridesmaid who never got to show how special she was.
If Trump leaves voluntarily or they throw him out, you're behind. You need to distinguish yourself and fast. Right now, you all look like clones of each other who want to position themselves as the next Trump term. And Vance and Rubio are locking up that angle.
So what are you going to do? Do you even want to be President? Time’s ticking.
Gregory Minchak is the Communications Director for the Lincoln Project.
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“We’re slipping down into a police state,” Joe Trippi warns, before correcting himself — “it’s not even slipping anymore.” The troops in the streets, the federal intimidation of critics, the targeting of judges and governors — all the nightmare scenarios the right once used as scare tactics have become reality under Trump himself.
If Trump doesn't make it to 2028, watch these people turn into cannibals. They will eat themsleves, along with the rest of what used to be the Republican party. All the while blaming transgender athletes, DEI hires, and immigrants who do the work Americans won't do, for the economic mess that Trump has left us. Along with whatever God-knows-what viral epidemic that RFK Jr. and the rest of the anti-vaxxers have ushered in. It would be entertaining if not for the fact that it will have so many negative real-world consequences for the real world.
This is the right message—keep an eye on the powers behind the throne—but if Trump is as sick and demented as he certainly looks, the likeliest scenario is that he doesn’t live until the 2028 elections, and maybe not even to the midterms.
Change may be coming sooner than we think.