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MORNING GLORY: The GOP’s choice in 2028 — more of MAGA or a reversion to the mean?

There’s Vice President Vance, of course, but don't be surprised by a primary field approaching double digit Republican candidates

By Hugh Hewitt Fox News

Published June 11, 2026 5:00am EDT

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Since the triumphant return of President Trump in November 2024 — and it was a triumph, with Trump winning all seven swing states and the popular vote — the Democrats have reacted by lurching hard left, electing a radical mayor in New York City, attempting to take purple Virginia far left with a crazy gerrymandered Congressional map (which was struck down by the state’s Supreme Court as unconstitutional), and on Tuesday nominating radical (and deeply troubled) Graham Platner as their candidate in Maine to face off against the moderate and widely admired Senator Susan Collins, Chair of the Senate’s powerful Appropriations Committee.

Radical candidates are expected to emerge as the party’s Senate nominees in Michigan and Minnesota as well. The "Democratic Socialists of America" hostile takeover over the shattered glass of the Democratic Party seems inevitable.

With the Democrats at best in an internal civil war between socialists and far-left liberals, which way will a post-President Trump GOP turn?

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The front-runner for party leader and 2028 nominee has to be considered to be Vice President J.D. Vance, but sitting Veeps don’t just accept the nomination save for extraordinary circumstances such as the Democrats faced in 2024 when Vice President Harris was handed the nomination when the physical and mental infirmities of President Joe Biden became too obvious to ignore.

Looking back to 1988, there is sitting Vice President George H.W. Bush, who........

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