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GOP divided over potential 2028 presidential nominee · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: So, Sarah, what is the real world impact of Vance's
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  Speaker 1: speech yesterday and Erica Kirk's endorsement. Does it it helped
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  Speaker 1: Vance begin, at least at this point, put together donors,
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  Speaker 1: maybe already potentially talking to some top political operatives. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to set yourself up for a run
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  Speaker 1: three years, isn't too soon to start?
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  Speaker 2: No, Exactly, JD. Vance is definitely going to be the
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  Speaker 2: top contender in this race, and in this primary, he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be the guy to be, and he's going
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  Speaker 2: to have the backing of folks like Erica Kirk that
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  Speaker 2: you just mentioned, and also a lot of top fundraising ability,
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  Speaker 2: and he's going to have the backing of billionaires like
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  Speaker 2: Peter Thiel. So he's definitely going to be the one
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  Speaker 2: to compete with. But I do think that voters don't
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  Speaker 2: like a coronation. I think that the Republican Party is
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  Speaker 2: going to want to see a rigorous primary and they're
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  Speaker 2: not going to just want to see this handed to him.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, it will make whoever emerges as the nominee
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  Speaker 2: that much more of a strong candidate going into a
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  Speaker 2: general election if they go through a rigorous primary. So
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  Speaker 2: even though he's going to have all of this chatter
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  Speaker 2: three years out about him being the potential nominee and
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  Speaker 2: heir apparent of the MAGA movement. I don't think that
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  Speaker 2: that means that he is necessarily going to be the
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  Speaker 2: Republican nominee in twenty twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: So, Susan, I'm curious about your take on that and
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  Speaker 1: how Turning Point USA's early endorsement advance might impact other
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  Speaker 1: Republicans who obviously may not even be in the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Let us remind folks that the first time that Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump was nominated for his party, the prohibitive favor going
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  Speaker 1: in with a guy named Jeb Bush.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. It's a long way from now until the
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  Speaker 3: convention in twenty twenty eight that will nominate the Republican
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  Speaker 3: candidate to succeed President Trump, and a lot will happen.
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  Speaker 3: Things will happen that we can't predict here. But obviously
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  Speaker 3: jd Vance starts out as in a strong position. A
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  Speaker 3: Turning Point has helped him solidify that strong position, so
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  Speaker 3: as Trump's general embrace of his vice president. But that's
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  Speaker 3: not going to be everything, and what we don't know
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  Speaker 3: and what cruise I think is trying to calculate is
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  Speaker 3: whether the party in three years will want somebody who
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  Speaker 3: has hugged Trump as closely as possible, or whether President
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  Speaker 3: Trump will be a mixed blessing, certainly a strength with
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  Speaker 3: some Republicans. Will there be other Republicans interested in having
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  Speaker 3: the party move in a different direction. And this is
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  Speaker 3: a position Cruise is comfortable with. You remember, at the
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  Speaker 3: convention in twenty sixteen, he did not endorse Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: He gave a speech to Booze that said you should
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  Speaker 3: vote your conscience. So he has a history in training.
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  Speaker 3: While he's been a ally of Trump during his Trump's presidencies,
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  Speaker 3: He's somebody who is comfortable putting just a little distance
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  Speaker 3: between him and Donald J. Trump.
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  Speaker 1: So the Trump may be term limited, but Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: Junior made it clear that his father's mag movement isn't
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  Speaker 1: about to be going anywhere. Take listen.
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  Speaker 4: The Democrat Party wants to do whatever they possibly can
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  Speaker 4: to shut this movement down. Not just the Democrats, the Rhinos.
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  Speaker 4: You see the manufactured attacks on JD. Myself fought anyone
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  Speaker 4: who understands that this isn't the Republican Party anymore. It's
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  Speaker 4: the America First Party. It's the Make America Great Again
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  Speaker 4: Party and we are not going back.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's a challenge, right. I mean, you've got
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  Speaker 1: the base, as we've long referred to it, the MAGA
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  Speaker 1: supporters of the president, who have been through thick and thin,
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  Speaker 1: pretty reliable in terms of voting. What does that mean
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  Speaker 1: for Republicans like Ted Cruz who are trying to carve
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  Speaker 1: out something else and maybe following conventional wisdom which says
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  Speaker 1: you can't win with just the base.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will agree with Don Junior that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: has remade the Republican Party in his image. But that's
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  Speaker 2: the thing is that it's in Donald Trump's image. I
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  Speaker 2: think that once Trump leaves office, it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: really hard for anyone to continue the success of the
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  Speaker 2: MAGA movement and take the mantle because no one is
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. No one can replicate him. We saw Ron
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  Speaker 2: DeSantis try to do that in the twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 2: primary where he tried to be Trump Light and voters
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  Speaker 2: just didn't buy what he was selling. And so I
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  Speaker 2: do think that the MAGA movement is still going to
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  Speaker 2: be around once Trump leaves office, but it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to hold the same power. And I do think that
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  Speaker 2: there is going to be a shift within the party,
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  Speaker 2: and it seems like Ted Cruz is starting to calculate
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  Speaker 2: that a bit and get ahead of it. I think
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  Speaker 2: you're also seeing folks like Marjorie Taylor Green who are
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  Speaker 2: trying to say, no, I'm the real MAGA, let me
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  Speaker 2: take over the movement. And so you're seeing these fractures
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  Speaker 2: within the party and people trying to calculate which way
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  Speaker 2: the winds are going to blow as we get closer
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  Speaker 2: to twenty twenty eight. But I do think it's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit early right now to know where the Republican
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  Speaker 2: Party will be at and what the appetite is going
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  Speaker 2: to be for the type of candidate that folks are
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  Speaker 2: going to want.