Vance warns GOP needs to give voters something to ‘believe in’ without Trump on ballot

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Vice President JD Vance said the GOP’s bruising November losses were a blunt warning that the party must give President Donald Trump’s working-class coalition a reason to show up without Trump driving turnout.

During a Thursday morning fireside chat with Breitbart‘s Matt Boyle, Vance conceded that modern-day Republican voters who support Trump’s MAGA movement are “a fundamentally new phenomenon in American politics,” distinct from the Republican Party of earlier eras, such as those of former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

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