Watch: Convention Crowd Symbolically Anoints JD Vance for 2028 with Chant

If the polls are true — always a big “if” — then Republicans face a looming bloodbath in the 2026 midterm elections.

That stark reality, however, did not stop attendees at the Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, this week from looking ahead to the 2028 presidential election and voicing their enthusiasm for the party’s potential nominee, Vice President J.D. Vance.

On Thursday evening, as Vance spoke to the convention crowd, a chant of “48” began among the delegates. Before long, the chant had filled the American Airlines Center.

“Ladies, I’d like to know what you had to drink, ’cause I’ll take ...