Vice President JD Vance has stopped in Ohio as he makes his way to Iowa for the first time since taking office.
faces a competitive race Vance, a former U.S. senator who represented Ohio and became vice president before the end of his term, departed Washington accompanied by one of his young sons.
He stopped first in Cincinnati to vote in Ohio’s primary elections and told reporters he was voting for Vivek Ramaswamy in the governor’s race. Asked about U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, who’s running in a special election to serve out the remainder of Vance’s term, Vance said he thinks Husted’s “going to do a great job” and has been “good for Ohio.
” His 6-year-old son, meanwhile, filled out a ballot for children, which the vice president showed to the poll workers when he cast his own ballot.
“He voted for the Easter bunny over the tooth fairy,” he said of his son, who’s also named Vivek. Before arriving in Iowa, Vance also was set to appear in Oklahoma City to hold a fundraiser in his role as finance chair of the Republican National Committee.give them an outsized role in determining the next presidential nominee.
Campaigning for a local congressman in his role as the sitting vice president gives him an opening chance to make an impression on Iowa Republicans, seasoned evaluators of those who seek the nation’s highest office before the campaign begins in earnest. , who is also considered a possible 2028 candidate, spoke to a group of evangelical Christians who are influential in Iowa’s GOP contest.
Des Moines-based Jimmy Centers, a Republican political consultant, said the 2028 contest is “light-years away” but said the Republicans who hear Vance speak on Tuesday will be evaluating how he might measure up in an election for the White House.
“I certainly think, as of right now, Vice President Vance would probably be a straw-poll winner of Iowa Republicans for 2028. But I don’t think anyone is saying, ‘We won’t consider anybody else,’” Centers said. Vance, who has not said whether he will run for the presidency in 2028, is scheduled to appear with Nunn at a manufacturing facility in Des Moines.
His office did not comment on the trip’s impact on Vance’s political future.in January to tout the administration’s tax cuts, part of a string of stops they’re making this year onBut Vance’s visit comes when his own political prospects — and the message he’s expected to deliver on the economy — have been complicated by, for which Trump has struggled to find an off-ramp. Iowans, like much of the rest of the country, are grappling withWhile Iowa’s farmers have steadfastly supported the president, they have been looking to the White House for assurances that the current troubles won’t last.
Vance’s visit to Iowa was originally scheduled for last week, but the timing shifted because the House moved to pass a sweeping farm bill that Nunn was due to vote on. Kim Schmett, a longtime Iowa GOP activist, said the presidential cycle starts “deceptively slow.
” Republican figures testing the waters often drop by the Westside Conservative Club, which Schmett hosts, but he said it’s still too far out from the caucuses, which are typically held in January of the presidential election year. He said Trump’s Make America Great Again political movement “is very alive and going here” in Iowa, which would benefit Vance — as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also thought to be “I think there’s going to be a lot of MAGA support,” he said.
“And Vice President Vance and Marco Rubio seem to be the recipients of where that is going at the moment. ”On the Democratic side, at least half a dozen presidential prospects have been making visits to the states with the earliest presidential primary contests, including recent visits to Iowa by former Transportation Secretary Meanwhile, potential Republican presidential candidates “are treading very lightly,” said GOP strategist Alex Conant, who worked on Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign.
“I think Republicans are going to be very reluctant to get in Trump’s way until Trump gives the green light for the campaign to start,” Conant said. That means much of the groundwork to meet with donors or activists or recruit political staffers might happen slowly and subtly – for now. Governor DeWine announces Ohio sales tax holidayRamaswamy looks to put primary behind him and turn to expensive fall campaign for Ohio governor
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