Ned Ryun

He's not going to sit there and dictate.

J.D.

is not going to be like, I want this race, this.

No, it's a team effort, but

He is a critical part of it.

And if we win in the midterms, I think he's going to be on a really good trajectory to be the heir apparent to America first.

And I think he'd be a fantastic standard bearer for America first.

But I think you're right.

I mean, this to me, when people were wondering back in the summer of twenty twenty four,

You know, oh, we're just going to outlast Trump.

Let's see who he picks for VP.

And then all of a sudden he picks, at the time, a 39-year-old senator out of Ohio.

It felt to me like he pushed all of his chips into the middle of the table and said, yeah, you think you're going to outlast America first?

I just picked a 39-year-old VP.

He's not going anywhere anytime soon.

So I looked at Trump kind of making that bet in 24, and I'm not saying he's going to be like –

He wants to wait until the midterms before he gets behind somebody for 2028.

But it really felt significant to me because there are a lot of people in D.C.

like, oh, we're just going to outlast Trump.

A little hard to outlast Trump when you're dealing with somebody that young like J.D.