{"id":157806,"date":"2026-07-24T23:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/jd-vances-stock-rises-in-trumps-eyes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T23:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:50:39","slug":"jd-vances-stock-rises-in-trumps-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/jd-vances-stock-rises-in-trumps-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance\u2019s stock rises in Trump\u2019s eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump\u2019s informal audition for his 2028 successor appears to be over \u2014 at least for now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For months, Trump treated Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as something like rival contestants, polling aides and donors on the two men and floating each as a possible heir without tipping his hand. In recent weeks, that has stopped, according to five people familiar with the president\u2019s running commentary on the race to succeed him in 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s become, \u2018JD\u2019s our guy, we gotta help JD,\u2019\u201d said a senior administration official, one of several people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.<\/p>\n

Another person said Trump has taken to remarking that his vice president has been looking good lately.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of that,\u201d the person added.<\/p>\n

People familiar with Trump\u2019s shift pointed to a specific inflection point: Vance\u2019s press tour for his new memoir, \u201cCommunion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,\u201d about his 2019 conversion to Catholicism.<\/p>\n

The tour took Vance to ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View,\u201d where the reception was warm enough that co-host Ana Navarro asked co-host Joy Behar why she was \u201cso in love with\u201d him. He also sat for an interview with Bill Maher on HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time\u201d; Maher later said he would be open to voting for Vance in 2028. He logged extensive time on Fox News \u2014 the president\u2019s preferred cable news channel. And he appeared on Megyn Kelly\u2019s podcast, where he criticized the infighting within the MAGA movement over the war in Iran as \u201cvery immature.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was that stretch \u2014 Vance holding his own in semihostile terrain while carrying the administration\u2019s message \u2014 that caught the president\u2019s attention, these people said.<\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t hurt that Trump has been privately complimentary about Vance\u2019s weight loss, according to two people familiar with the comments. At an event in Michigan last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he and Vance were among several administration officials following a sauerkraut-heavy diet devised by the physician Dr. Sean O\u2019Mara, The Wall Street Journal reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump is notoriously mercurial, and his feelings about people in his orbit can shift from day to day. One person familiar with the matter said the president expressed disappointment over the collapse this month of the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, which Vance had negotiated alongside Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. And Vance and his team have grated on some senior White House staff with what one official described as a near-obsessive focus on online chatter about Vance and the administration.<\/p>\n

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