2026-11-09 · The Sydney Morning Herald
With the future of US President Donald Trump’s party in question and Vance forced to differentiate himself from an unpopular president, his potential rivals see even more reason to challenge the sitting vice president, a fight that will determine not just who becomes the next GOP standard-bearer, but what the party looks like after Trump.
“I think the caucuses and that presidential process started on Wednesday morning, if not Tuesday [election] night,” said Bob Vander Plaats, a longtime conservative activist in Iowa and president of the evangelical group The Family Leader, who endorsed DeSantis in 2024. assertive