Victor Davis Hanson returns to weigh the balancing act Vice President JD Vance faces in a potential 2028 run in weeding out antisemitism from within the Republican Party without alienating disenfranchised white males who have been misled.

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Victor Davis Hanson: On the other side in 2028, if you looked at the polls, [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio was like 8%, 10%, and JD Vance was overwhelmingly [ahead]. They both speak well. And you saw what Vance did in the debate with [Democrat VP nominee] Tim Walz. You saw what he did 30 or 40 times on weekend news shows.

He just demolished all of these left-wing newscasters. And Rubio did the same thing when he went before the Senate or the House. They’re both good. But Rubio is getting a little bit more traction now, and that, I think, is because there is a perception that JD Vance has ties to not the MAGA base, the ultra MAGA base.

I think he’s going to have to articulate this. There’s a large number of white males. We’ve talked about that, a demographic, that they........

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