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Vance is the likely 2028 frontrunner, but these Republicans may also run for president

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Vice President-elect JD Vance is on a glide path to be the heir apparent to the America First movement and the Republican Party's powerful MAGA base.

Republican politicians, strategists and pundits agree that Vance , who was elected to the Senate in Ohio just two years ago , will likely be the clear frontrunner in the next Republican presidential nomination race.

Sen. Ted Cruz was the runner-up to Trump in the blockbuster 2016 Republican presidential battle.

The now-47-year-old Sen. Tom Cotton seriously mulled a 2024 White House run of his own before deciding against it in late 2022 , putting his young family ahead of political ambitions.

The former two -term South Carolina governor was the first GOP challenger to jump into the race against the former president in the 2024 nomination race.