Who Is JD Vance?

My VIP for this week is JD Vance, Republican Vice President of the United States. He recently won a straw poll taken at CPAC in Grapevine, Texas, in which he polled “53% of the more than 1,600 attendees who participated in the survey. However, all is not good for Vance because Secretary of State received 35% of the CPAC votes to succeed President Donald Trump. Vance received 61% of the vote in last year’s CPAC straw poll.

According to Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell in her article at The Daily Signal, CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp has some ideas about who will succeed Trump. 

For anyone who wants to succeed President Trump, they’re going to have to work for it, and they’re going to have to earn it…. That’s how President Trump was elected as an outsider…. He showed up on every stage, and he made everyone else look implausible.

Vance and Rubio are the only two potential candidates to receive more than 2% of the vote. Other potential contenders in the straw vote were Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), War Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Donald Trump Jr.

Vance has called Rubio his “closest friend in the administration,” and Rubio has said that he would support Vance for president. “If JD Vance runs for president, he’s going to be our nominee, and I’ll be one of the first people to support him.”