Emerson College Polling executive director Spencer Kimball said: "Vice President Vance has solidified himself as the frontrunner in the 2028 nomination contest, backed by 52% of male Republican primary voters and voters over 60.

GOP Vice President JD Vance and Dem ex-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are the leading candidates for their parties’ primary nods in the 2028 presidential race, a new poll shows.

One figure in the GOP is emerging as the leading candidate to stand in 2028 – notwithstanding Trump’s hints at an unconstitutional third term

The legal battle takes place against the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s landmark 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision, which struck down limits on independent expenditures by corporations and outside groups, ruling that such restrictions violated the First Amendment’s free speech protections.

Republicans are scrambling to reform Trump's tax and domestic policy package, which could require support from Vice President JD Vance to pass.

President Donald Trump has about three years and six months left in his second term, but one top GOP figure has already opened up a commanding lead in the race to succeed him as the Republican Party standard-bearer.

The case stems from JD Vance's 2022 Senate campaign and aims to overturn a 24-year-old Supreme Court precedent.

In a landmark decision on campaign finance in a case called Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court in 2010 enabled corporations and other outside groups to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections, striking down federal limits on independent expenditures as a violation of the First Amendment.

The case, which centers on free speech claims, involves VP Vance, who was a Senate candidate in Ohio when the lawsuit was initiated.

JD Vance and Steve Chabot's case could remove restrictions on how much political parties can spend in coordination with federal candidates