Will Sommer

Vance's ties to people like Peter Thiel.

You know, there's this, even within this group we're describing, there's a lot of different factions.

And I think one of those groups is very concerned about things like Palantir, this kind of techno-surveillance authoritarian state that Peter Thiel represents.

And so I think you're right to assess that J.D.

Vance sees that he has to kind of keep the regular Republicans that he inherits as the vice president, while also not really angering the Groypers and people like that.

Yeah.

I mean, look, I mean, you can see how big the kind of the right wing media of it all is.

And as you said, I mean, people like these are not –

typical kind of Fox News Republican media figures either.

I mean, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson.

AmFest is very much, I think, who's invited and who's not really says a lot about the direction of the Republican Party, at least as TPUSA wants to control it to be.

It was a huge deal even before Charlie Kirk's assassination.

whether or not Tucker Carlson would be invited to speak because he's become increasingly anti-Israel.

And that's a lot of what the drama with Charlie Kirk and his donors was about, whether he would take Tucker off the speaker's list this year.

So I think it's something that people on the right watch really closely in terms of who's in and who's out.

Yeah, that's right.

I mean, it is striking that someone like Ted Cruz isn't on the list.

I would say Turning Point is also, I mean, you mentioned that it's kind of AmFest has surpassed CPAC.

I mean, this is where the energy is, particularly after the Charlie Kirk assassination.

I mean, the question is sort of, is it going to be Turning Point or is Candace going to get a slice of the action, something like that, rather than is it going to be, you know, the National Review or Ben Shapiro?