Is JD Vance still the heir apparent? Nick Freitas says the midterms gave him a real rival.

BlazeTV host Nick Freitas believes the midterm wipeout has turned the 2028 GOP race from a JD Vance coronation into a real contest of Vance vs. Ron DeSantis.

Freitas says he called it before the election: “If there’s one person outside the administration that could really challenge and be a candidate, it’s Ron DeSantis, because of what he did in Florida.”

Producer Christian agrees, noting that the term-limited Florida governor is “currently [his] favorite governor in the entire country,” but argues that DeSantis “did hurt himself when he primaried Trump in 2024.”

“There’s a lot of people now that I don’t think are going to give him a shot,” Christian adds.

Freitas disagrees. “If the Republicans had done pretty well or this wasn’t a big wipeout in the