Vance will likely be 2028 front-runner, but RNC chair 'excited about the bench that we have'

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With former president and now President-elect Donald Trump unable to run again for the White House in 2028, Vice President-elect JD Vance appears to be the heir apparent to the America First movement and the Republican Party's powerful MAGA base.

But even though the 40-year-old Vance will be considered the front-runner in the next GOP presidential nomination race, the chair of the Republican National Committee says the party will hold to its traditional role of staying neutral in an open and contested presidential primary.

"We will," RNC chair Michael Whatley said in a Fox News Digital interview.

Vance, with Trump's support in a party firmly in the president-elect's grip, will be very hard to knock off in the 2028 Republican presidential primaries.

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