EXCLUSIVE: Vice President JD Vance will function the Republican Nationwide Committee’s finance chair, telling Fox Information Digital that he’ll work with the get together to “absolutely enact the MAGA mandate” and develop the Republican majority in Congress in 2026.
The RNC Govt Committee voted unanimously to verify Vance within the position, an RNC official instructed Fox Information Digital. That is the primary time within the historical past of the GOP {that a} sitting vp will serve within the position.
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An RNC official instructed Fox Information Digital that Vance serving as finance chair is “unprecedented” and reveals “simply how a lot the White Home and the RNC are in lockstep this cycle.”
JD Vance (AP Photograph/Jae C. Hong)
“Everyone seems to be laser-focused on rising our majorities in 2026, and we’re going to aggressively fundraise to be prepared for subsequent 12 months.”
Vance, in a press release to Fox Information Digital, mirrored on Trump’s “historic election victory, taking again the White Home and serving to Republicans regain management of the Senate and retain management of the Home.”
“However to totally enact the MAGA mandate and President Trump’s imaginative and prescient that voters demanded, we should hold and develop our Republican majorities in 2026,” Vance mentioned.
President Donald Trump (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
“I’m excited to work with Chairman Whatley and the RNC management to construct the warfare chest we have to ship these victories subsequent November,” Vance added.
“JD will do a improbable job as RNC Finance Chair,” President Trump mentioned in a press release to Fox Information Digital. “He is aware of learn how to battle and win powerful races.”
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The president added, “I’m glad he’ll be working with Michael Whatley to assist us safe our elections, get out the vote, and win massive subsequent 12 months!”
RNC Chair Mike Whatley instructed Fox Information Digital that Vance is “the definition of an American success story, rising from a childhood the place his household confronted nice struggles to grow to be one of many youngest vice presidents in our nation’s historical past.”
Republican Nationwide Committee Chair Michael Whatley (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
“Vice President Vance just isn’t solely one in every of our Celebration’s most gifted messengers, he’s additionally a thought chief who has helped remake the GOP into the get together of working Individuals representing the forgotten women and men of our nation,” Whatley wrote. “I’m repeatedly grateful to President Trump for the management and route he offers the Celebration and am honored to work with Vice President Vance to develop our get together and guarantee President Trump has the votes in Congress to Make America Nice Once more.”
Vance is succeeding outgoing Nationwide Finance Chair Richard “Duke” Buchan III. Trump appointed Buchan to function ambassador to Morocco.
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Whatley thanked Buchan for his “large service” to the RNC and the GOP and for his “assist for President Trump.”
“His efforts have been a necessary contribution to our success in 2024,” Whatley mentioned.
