Like the summer, election season is only getting hotter, and tens of millions of people are ready for a change. Over the past four years, record inflation levels, border anarchy, violent conflict abroad, and an executive branch openly in thrall to divisive identity politics and fringe leftist obsessions have made many voters eager to empower Republicans this fall.   

While most attention is paid to the front of the ticket, a vice presidential candidate can have a major role in shaping America’s future. The vice president serves not just as the right hand to the leader of the free world, but as a key adviser and tone-setter on the campaign and in the White House.