https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/04...s-01148838

“To the people who are pissed off and want to say, ‘I told you so’: you’re right, you did tell us so,” he wrote.

Knives are already out for rivals in 2028. Vance never wanted anything to do with foreign policy adventures, and it's easy to say "Iran is what did us in", when really it was just the tearing down of the entire coalition that propelled Trump back into office in 2024. Pissing off the young men with higher gas prices, pissing off hispanics b/c grandma got captured by seal team 6 at home depot, threatening to attack Denmark to "conquer" Greenland, belittling Canada and thus torpedoing States like Maine and Michigan, nonstop corruption scandals (2 big ones: he made $2.2b last year while in office, and that little $1.8b "compensation" fund that he tried getting the govt to pay his allies that was only killed when Republicans in the Senate held up all his nominees until he pulled that one, but there are plenty of others), a prioritization of loyalty over competency....I mean, I could write a 10 page essay on all the dumb **** Trump did to tear down the strong coalition that he built a mere 2 years ago. One of the very few things that he did right imo was picking Vance as his running mate 2 years ago. I don't agree with some of Vance's policy decisions, but he doesn't deserve the blame that's coming his way for being too close to the sun when everyone from both parties starts going after Trump 24/7 now.

I saw that DeSantis is already getting ready for 2028, claiming that 2026 was an "Extinction Level Event" for Republicans. Vance will have to contend with DeSantis and Cruz at the least, perhaps some current Governors, too. Not sure if Rubio can survive this, probably not.