I’m Very Proud of J.D. Vance: Why he’s the best pick for 2028

It’s fair to say that I am very proud of J.D. Vance.  Now that he’s the Vice President in the White House, I can’t help but think of the various interactions I’ve had with him leading up to this opportunity, and I can’t help but think of it all in some divinely inspired way. It’s one of those things that you knew in the back of your mind, but conscious reality had no clue, and when those things come together, it’s just nice to look at, such as the Grand Canyon, Mt Rushmore, or the Washington Monument.  I like thinking about Washington, D.C. more these days since Trump is back in the White House. I think my wife and I are actually going to visit it soon and enjoy it with a fresh perspective.  But what’s different this time, and when I first met him, J.D. Vance already had celebrity status because of his book and Netflix movie, The Hillbilly Elegy, but to watch J.D. move up through obscurity and into the White House the way I remember it was quite a story and I have been reflecting a lot, almost as though I witnessed the hand of God move him as a chess piece through a wild and dark time.  And it took a lot of good people to make that chess move happen, and it’s a miracle.  But also an important lesson.  As I said well before Trump was re-elected, and back in July, a few days after being shot in the head from an assassination attempt, I said that people were going to be so happy with Trump that when his term was up in four years that nobody would want him to leave.  But J.D. Vance was a promising young man who would best be able to pick up the administration and continue it for another 8 years.  There will be many good people in the Republican Party who will run and offer themselves for the job.  But as J.D. Vance said to Maria Bartiromo on the first Sunday of February 2025, nobody has a front-row seat on how to be Trump in the White House other than this current Vice President.  He’ll be the best and most apparent pick to carry on what Trump started, and I’m just proud of him.

I first met J.D. Vance in the back of Nancy Nix’s yard, by her pool.  During the primaries, I was most supportive of that new senate seat for Josh Mandel because I knew he was a Tea Party kind of guy, and I was tired of RINOs in the Republican Party and didn’t want to support one more.  J.D. Vance back then had said bad things about Trump, and I wasn’t about to forget about them.  But Nancy was lobbying me to support the young man because, in a tight primary, I could have some critical things to say that might get people to vote one way or another.  So she called me and told me she would have J.D. Vance over at her house, and I should meet him.  I wasn’t excited because my wife and I were swamped then.  However, I always give Nancy time when she brings something up because she has excellent political instincts, so I went to her house to hear out J.D. Vance.  By her pool, I had a chance to talk to the future Vice President and communicated my reluctance to him and why.  I asked him why he thought he could be a good senator and withstand the temptations of all the corruption that goes on in Washington, D.C., for which he explained to me that he just wasn’t that kind of guy and that he would fight hard to represent us all well in that high office.  My first thought was that everyone says that.  But with J.D. Vance, it took on a bit more meaning, and I believed him and decided to support him.  It’s more for Nancy Nix than anything else.  But that would soon change into a life of its own.

Once J.D. Vance won, I saw him many times and always treated those times without much shock.  He was just another politician doing the work we needed him to do in Ohio, and I was happy with him.  But he was very accessible.  I was involved in a side event that involved many people for J.D. Vance to tour as part of his role as senator to bring attention to some crucial topics.  While I was talking to these people, we were talking about shared interests in the upcoming Lincoln Day Dinner, where Ron DeSantis would be the featured speaker.  I thought it might be a good idea to talk to J.D. Vance personally about other off-site things, but his people told me that Vance wouldn’t be going to the popular Butler County dinner because he didn’t want Trump to think he was endorsing the Florida Governor for President.  At that time, many people were pushing DeSantis to replace Trump in the 2024 election.  I admired that J.D. Vance was that much loyal to Trump when just about nobody else was.  And, of course, it would pay off later, down the stretch.  When it mattered most, Trump picked J.D. Vance as his VP because, under tremendous pressure, the future VP showed what he was made of when just about everyone, except for Nancy Nix, thought otherwise.

I’ve seen J.D. Vance quite a lot with Don Jr. and Bernie Moreno and had a nice front-row seat to see his political capital rise.  Looking back at all the hard work and the people who helped him along the way, with the best of intentions, he seemed pretty crazy at times to be so loyal to Trump and not appear at a very popular Butler County event to make sure his support was evident.  Nobody, except for me, thought Trump had a chance of returning to office.  But now that he has, I am pretty sure nobody will ever want to go back to the stuffy politics of a Republican in the White House again in the ways they were before Trump came along.  They will wish for Trump II, and right now, J.D. Vance is being personally trained to do that job.  And he has been doing it all the right way.  He’s from my area, there was always something special about him, even when everyone talked in their shorts under the hot summer sun in the back of Nancy Nix’s house by her pool.  And when I watch Vance on TV now and think of all the steps it took to get there because I was able to see many of them up close, it does display the hand of God reaching in and molding politics to build on earth the intentions of Heaven and to grant upon America the best that God can give to people he has picked to represent him.  So, it’s not too early to discuss J.D. Vance for 2028.  As we do, I have to say that I am proud of J.D. Vance for having the courage to accept God’s hand and not waiver when it would have been easy to do so.  He never did; he is as true to our cause as anyone on Earth.  I am proud to see him as a direct member of the Trump White House.  And the future looks very bright, and for all those reasons that he arrived there and more.

Rich Hoffman

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