Who’s the Political Heir to Trump?

Pre-Inauguration January 20th 2025 I thought I knew better. With Ted Cruz not being visible in the Donald Trump’s 2.0 administration and with Barack Obama having broken the “non-WASP minority” barrier (though JFK before him truly broke this but JFK was white Roman Catholic), it looks certainly poised that a Latino would be thrust upon centre stage to collect the baton from

President Trump. Latinos supported Trump in the last election despite last-minute apparent hiccups concerning the faux pas at Madison Square Garden in New York involving a non-discreet “basket mouth” comedian. Thus, I’d really bet Marco Rubio as the heir to Trump; he the ebullient speaker of Spanish, he the one with familial ties to Cuba, he the one with youthful vigour, he the one of strong Christian faith in these trying times when the enemy smashes babies’ skulls at kibbutzim in Israel and when Europe is being surreptitiously overrun by the guile of Islamic weaponised migration. Now, enters the still youthful Veep, J.D. Vance: he who upended convention by telling truth to the Europeans, he who calmed geopolitical tensions by making it known that Russia and China are not threats to Europe, he who looks like the real McCoy heir apparent to Donald Trump.

That’s him. J.D. Vance.

Sunday Adole Jonah,

Department of Physics, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State