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Will J.D. Vance Run In 2028? History Says VP Might Be The Strongest GOP Contender. dailytorch.com/2026/05/will-j… @realDonaldTrump @VP The Congressional midterm elections of 2026 are just a few months away, and once they come and go, the 2028 presidential cycle to succeed President Donald Trump will begin almost immediately, with one of the biggest decision-makers being Vice President J.D. Vance. While in 2028 Republicans won’t technically be running for a third consecutive term — President Trump was elected in 2016 and 2024 to non-consecutive terms — standard voter fatigue attributable to second term presidencies set in almost instantly in 2025. If so, it could be the only thing worse than nominating a sitting vice president might be to nominate somebody else. The reason for that could be how the modern nominating process has unfolded, unquestionably favoring sitting vice presidents, with party nominations in Richard Nixon in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968, George H.W. Bush in 1988, Al Gore in 2000 and Kamala Harris in 2024 going to the incumbent vice president. In the post-World War II era, they’re undefeated. If they run, they win the nomination. When sitting vice presidents or vice presidents who became president have run for the third consecutive or more term (defined by consecutive terms with the same party ruling), the elections were competitive or beneficial for the incumbents if not always successful: Harry Truman (a sitting president who had succeeded Frankling Roosevelt after he died) won 49.5 percent to Thomas Dewey’s 45 percent in 1948, Richard Nixon got 49.55 percent to John Kennedy’s 49.77 percent in 1960, Hubert Humphrey got 42.7 percent of the vote to Richard Nixon’s 43.4 percent in 1968, Gerald Ford (another sitting president who had succeeded Nixon) got 48.4 percent to Jimmy Carter’s 50 percent in 1976, George H.W. Bush won with 53.4 percent in 1988 to Michael Dukakis’ 45.7 percent and Al Gore got 48.4 percent to George W. Bush’s 47.9 percent (and barely lost) in 2000, or an average 48.63 percent of the popular vote. Compare that to non-vice presidents running for their party’s third or more term: Adlai Stevenson who only got 44.3 percent of the vote to Dwight Eisenhower’s 55.2 percent in 1952, John McCain only got 45.7 percent to Barack Obama’s 52.9 percent in 2008 and the one who did the best was Hillary Clinton with 48 percent to President Trump's 46 percent in 2016, or an average of 46 percent of the popular vote.

Cartoon: Just For Spite dailytorch.com/2026/05/cartoo… @realDonaldTrump @afbranco @LeaderJohnThune What will it take to get things moving in the Senate?

Newly Released FBI Preliminary Data Shows Crime Plummeted Under President Trump’s First Year In Office dailytorch.com/2026/05/newly-… @realDonaldTrump @DAGToddBlanche President Donald Trump made tackling crime, particularly in cities that had become unsafe for residents due to lax sentencing and harmful sanctuary policies, a cornerstone of his administration. Data compiling crime statistics is often delayed several months, which means the FBI’s preliminary findings on crime for 2025 were just released on May 13, 2026. However, what that data shows is a steep decline in violent and property crime across several categories. Preliminary data released by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program that covers crime statistics from over 17,000 agencies across the U.S. shows steep declines in crime from 2024 to 2025. The FBI reports an 18.5 percent decline in robbery, an 18.1 percent decline in murder and non-negligent manslaughter, a 12.4 percent decline in property crime, a 7.6 percent decline in sexual assault, and a 7.2 percent decline in aggravated assault. These numbers are preliminary numbers for 2025 and will be adjusted as the FBI compiles more data, but the trend is clear: crime numbers fell steeply in President Trump’s first year in office.

@TulsiGabbard @ODNIgov Thank you for your service. We pray your husband gets well very soon!

I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead @ODNIgov for the last year and a half. Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.

@4mbrady @realDonaldTrump Oil producers' have an unacceptable tendency to hold global oil production hostage periodically to extract concessions. It is foolish to side with foreign oil producers using nuclear brinksmanship to hold sea lanes hostage.

@LimitGovt @realDonaldTrump So, it appears that meddling in other countries and wars is the problem for most, if not all of these periods of inflation outpacing wages. And yet, the same old people in the same old parties continue making the same old mistakes. When will voters learn?

As Inflation Begins Eclipsing Incomes, President Trump Should Just Finish The Job, Denuclearize Iran And Reopen The Strait Of Hormuz—One Way Or Another dailytorch.com/2026/05/as-inf… @realDonaldTrump Consumer inflation has once again begun outpacing average weekly earnings in April, 3.8 percent to 3.6 percent respectively over the past 12 months as oil and gasoline prices continue popping during the Iran War, according to the latest data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in what must be a worrying sign to Republicans hoping to hold onto the House and Senate in 2026 — and even the White House in 2028. Since 2022, when inflation previously peaked at 9.1 percent in June 2022, inflation has consistently polled as the top issue for voters across every demographic: sex, race, age, party and so on. And historically, whenever inflation has outpaced personal incomes on any sustained basis — just a few months is enough — it has proven to be disastrous for the White House incumbent party, as it was Gerald Ford in 1976 (15 consecutive months of inflation outpacing incomes in 1974-1975), Jimmy Carter in 1980 (15 consecutive months in 1979-1980), George H.W. Bush (12 consecutive months in 1990-1991), George W. Bush (4 consecutive months in 2008) and Joe Biden (12 consecutive months in 2022). In each of those cases the White House incumbents lost the following general presidential election. Now, with the latest readings and the price pop from the war, assuming prices and incomes stay where they are now, with inflation outpacing incomes, the American people will not break even from the inflation that began five years ago any time soon before the end of 2028. Meaning, depending on what happens, it very well could be the American people will never break even from that inflation during President Trump’s second term. It’s a dire outlook to a dire problem that has plagued administrations since the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Gulf War, the Iraq War and the Ukraine War. That is, global oil supply disruptions have coincided with high U.S. inflation, which has not merely a tendency but an extremely high likelihood of disrupting voter attitudes towards the economy and therefore the White House incumbent party. It begs the question: What is each party’s plan to end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and get prices back down? If inflation is the top issue, then how the war resolves (also the war in Ukraine which also disrupts global oil supplies) must be the real policy issue to consider. Future presidents regardless of party should not have to be hobbled with this kind of crisis again. President Trump might as well finish the job, end the Iran nuclear threat once and for all and get the strait open — one way or another.

After Trump Wins in LA, KY & GA, Paxton Gets Endorsement In TX Senate Race--And It Is Potent youtube.com/watch?v=hXhKfM… @realDonaldTrump @FrankMcCaffrey1 You may have read few big wins recently by candidates in La., Ky. and Ga. who you might not have expected to win. Why? By most accounts, it is because they received President Donald Trump's stamp of approval. And now, a Texas U.S. Senate candidate has the Trump endorsement, making his win over a long-serving incumbent very likely.

🚨NEW: TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY: Harris And Democrats Play For Keeps With ‘No Bad Ideas’ Push To Pack Supreme Court, House, Senate And Electoral College "Harris would abolish the Senate filibuster, as she told Wisconsin Public Radio host Kate Archer Kent in September 2024: 'I’ve been very clear, I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe, and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.'” "It’s as plain as day that this is what Democrats will do the moment they are back in power, as it is the position of the presumptive Democratic frontrunner for 2028. This is no hypothetical. Republicans do not even need to speculate about what might happen not if, but when they eventually lose power." dailytorch.com/2026/05/harris… via @LimitGovt

Harris And Democrats Play For Keeps With ‘No Bad Ideas’ Push To Pack Supreme Court, House, Senate And Electoral College dailytorch.com/2026/05/harris… @realDonaldTrump @KamalaHarris @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune @RepJeffries @SenSchumer “I think that we need an expanded playbook in a way that we invite all ideas that we have basically look that we say look this is a moment where there are no bad ideas. A no bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the Electoral College. We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court… Let's talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.” That was former Vice President Kamala Harris, potential Democratic presidential candidate for 2028 — if so, she’d be the Democratic frontrunner say the latest average of polls compiled by RealClearPolling .com — basically saying the quiet part out loud on the Win With Black Women podcast on May 13 with host LaTosha Brown. That is, Democrats have every intention of packing the Supreme Court, the House with five more seats (about one for D.C. and four for Puerto Rico), the Senate with four more seats (two for each new state) and bring the Supreme Court to as many as 13 or 21 justices. In 2024, with D.C. and Puerto Rico as states, even through President Donald Trump would have still won the Electoral College, Republicans would have narrowly lost the House and Senate. The popular vote for the presidency would have been much closer. And to do that, Harris would abolish the Senate filibuster, as she told Wisconsin Public Radio host Kate Archer Kent in September 2024: “I've been very clear, I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe, and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.” It’s as plain as day that this is what Democrats will do the moment they are back in power, as it is the position of the presumptive Democratic frontrunner for 2028. This is no hypothetical. Republicans do not even need to speculate about what might happen not if, but when they eventually lose power.

Trump, Vance Say They Will Stop 'The First Domino' Of A Nuclear Armed Iran--'One Way Or Another' youtube.com/watch?v=y8vihE… @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @VP President Donald Trump is hinting a peace deal with Iran could be coming but that "one way or another" Iran won't be nuclear-armed. Meanwhile, Vice President J.D. Vance says, "Iran would really be the first domino and what would set off a nuclear arms race all over the world." We have the latest on negotiations with Iran, Pakistan's role and what challenges are faced by all sides.

Cartoon: Peace Through Strength dailytorch.com/2026/05/cartoo… @realDonaldTrump @afbranco That was then, this is now.

Poll: Immigration Is Single Most Effective Issue At Moving The Needle For Republicans In Midterms dailytorch.com/2026/05/poll-i… @realDonaldTrump @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune While Republicans are facing an uphill battle heading into the 2026 Congressional midterm cycle with the headwinds of the Iran war, and its costly impact on fuel prices driving inflation, there is a core issue that drastically shifts the needle in Republicans’ favor according to a new survey of likely voters: immigration. This is not a shock considering the fact that illegal immigration is at the core of President Donald Trump’s victory in both 2016 and 2024, but it is something Republicans should not discount in 2026. In the latest Cygnal survey of 1,500 likely voters conducted May 5-6, Republicans sit at a -7 disadvantage on the generic congressional ballot with 49 percent of likely voters planning to support a Democrat and 42 percent planning to support a Republican in November. This spread in favor of Democrats in-line with the Real Clear Polling average of Democrats leading by 7.1 points. It must be mentioned that not all Real Clear Polling surveys used in average are conducted on likely voters. For example, the Economist/YouGov survey is conducted on U.S. adults, not registered or likely voters. Still, Democrats are ahead in most surveys.

With Virginia's New Congressional Maps A No-Go By Courts, Now Democrats Might Suffer In November! youtube.com/watch?v=mZQeZ0… A recent Supreme Court decision to not overturn what the Virginia Supreme Court decided about the Democrats' plan to redistrict "The Old Dominion." This will hurt the left's plans for November and having a wave election in November. And, want to talk about gerrymandering? Have you ever seen New England's Congressional maps?

Today's Toon - Peace Through Strength - 05/19/26 dailytorch.com/2026/05/cartoo…

Cartoon: Court Deals A Blow dailytorch.com/2026/05/cartoo… @afbranco Has Virginia Democrat’s redistricting bid backfired?

Virginia Democrats’ Redistricting Defeat In Courts Make GOP Retaining House Conceivable dailytorch.com/2026/05/virgin… @realDonaldTrump @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune @RepJeffries @SenSchumer The U.S. Supreme Court on May 15 shot down a last-ditch effort by Virginia Democrats to overturn a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that found Virginia’s redistricting to be unconstitutional, with the nation’s highest court refusing to even hear the case. As a result, instead of the new gerrymandered 10-1 Congressional District map Democrats were hoping for will remain the current map, which currently has 6 Democrats and 5 Republicans serving in the House. Democrats had planned to offset expected Republicans gains in the current redistricting battle between states, particularly after the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision on April 29 that found that southern states that had drawn Congressional District maps based on racial considerations were unconstitutional. As a result of that, with redistricting in Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, plus Texas, Florida and Ohio with their own redistricting bids, Republicans could net as many as 17 additional Republican seats according to an estimate by the Cook Report. Whereas, Democrats, down to just their own redistricting in California and Utah, might only net 6 additional seats, per Cook. Meaning, Republicans could have a +11 seat edge coming into November’s Congressional midterms. In 2024, Republicans won 220 seats — a net 3-seat majority — but with the new maps, Republicans could be looking at more like a 14-seat cushion. That is significant because while normally the opposition party gains seats in the midterms, about 90 percent of the time, the question will be how many seats are picked up, if any, under the new maps. In 10 out of the past 30 Congressional midterms since 1906, the White house incumbent party lost less than 14 seats — about 33 percent of the time — in 1926 (lost 8), 1934 (gained 9), 1962 (lost 3), 1970 (lost 12), 1986 (lost 4), 1990 (lost 8), 1998 (gained 5), 2002 (gained 8), 2014 (lost 13) and 2022 (lost 9).

@EricLDaugh It’s obviously budgetary because it allocates $1 billion for security. Not even the judge was blocking security upgrades. They want presidents to get killed!

🚨 NOW: The Senate Parliamentarian has just unilaterally STRUCK DOWN President Trump's ballroom Secret Service security funding from the GOP reconciliation bill By decree, Elizabeth MacDonough is requiring 60 votes for the upgrades, not 50+1. ABSOLUTELY UNREAL!! Thune can IGNORE her and just ram it through, but of course he won't do that. We are at the behest of "institutionalists" and an unelected "interpreter" for our policies right now. FIRE THE PARLIAMENTARIAN! This is for safety reasons of all future presidents!

Early Vote For California Gubernatorial Primary Shows Conservative Voter Turnout Leading dailytorch.com/2026/05/early-… With the June 2 California gubernatorial primary election two weeks out, early voting data shows turnout among Republicans, as well as older voters, a group that leans conservative, outpacing other groups. California voters head to the polls on June 2 where voters will decide between eight Democrats and two Republicans for governor. The top two, regardless of party, will face off in November. Because eight Democrats entered the race, though Rep. Eric Swalwell dropped out of the race last month, multiple Democrat candidates will appear on the June 2 ballot competing against just two Republicans in the race. There is a high likelihood that Democrats will splinter their vote across the top two or three candidates, giving GOP frontrunner Steve Hilton, who earned President Trump’s endorsement in April a fighting chance at walking away from the primary with enough votes to challenge the Democrat frontrunner. This gives the GOP a fighting chance to win the gubernatorial race in California for the first time in 20 years. The June 2 primary election is shaping up to be close. Polls in early May showed the leading Republican in the race, Steve Hilton, leading the pack. However, former Biden Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has been incrementally gaining on Hilton over the past week. The latest Emerson College poll, released May 13, shows Becerra leading all candidates narrowly with 19 percent of the vote. Hilton earns 17 percent in the survey, and Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer earns 17 percent as well. Based on the latest polls, the possibility that two Republicans will face off in November is gone. However, with Becerra, Hilton, and Steyer all within a few points of each other, the election is high stakes.