Overview
- A nine-person focus group of 18- to 24-year-old 2024 Trump voters showed tepid interest in Vice President JD Vance as a 2028 GOP nominee, with only one participant initially raising a hand before expressing doubt.
- Participants questioned Vance’s electability, describing him as tied to Washington and inconsistent on positions compared with his earlier views.
- Asked for alternatives, the group mentioned Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tom Cotton, and James Fishback.
- On foreign policy prompts, five said the U.S. supports Israel too much and none favored the idea of the U.S. buying Greenland.
- Coverage of the findings prompted pushback noting the qualitative nature of the nine-person group and the anti-Trump ties of organizer Sarah Longwell, as separate reports flagged recent criticism of Vance’s 'Titanic' economy remark.