The unstated subtext of the 2028 race for the Republican nomination for president involves fissures over foreign policy.
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JD Vance represents the MAGA, America First wing of the party. Others, to include Ted Cruz, hope for a return to the interventionism of George W. Bush.
Thus, attacks on JD Vance do not overtly take issue with his more restrained approach to foreign policy. Nevertheless, those attacks invariably find motivation from his approach to foreign policy.
“It is really obvious to me that, at this very moment, Ted Cruz is running for president,” Vance recently remarked. “At this moment, I’m not. I’m trying to help elect Republicans. That’s what I’m going to keep on doing.”
Cruz, responded: “In my experience, people engage in political bomb-throwing when they’re feeling insecure. So he’s welcome to make whatever comments he likes. I’m going to keep focusing on the midterms and helping us win on Election Day in the next 30 days.”
This minor catfight prefaces the major ones to come.
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President Trump changes the map and the dictionary. Now he wants to change the clock.
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Sen. Tom Cotton disagrees with his plan for permanent daylight savings time. In response, the president released Cotton’s personal cellphone number — a move he pulled on the late Sen. Lindsay Graham when the two ran for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
“No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter,” Cotton explains on X. “Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll always put Arkansas first.”
What value does the president put first in releasing this man’s cellphone number to the world? Republicans face difficult races in deep-red states. Now does not seem like a good time for internecine attacks.
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