Vance eyes 'new right' coalition after midterm blow, Fox News says

Vice President JD Vance is angling for a different kind of Republican tent. According to Fox News, which cited sources, he's working to build a 'new right' coalition anchored in core 'America First' principles — a reset after the administration's midterm drubbing.

Vance didn't wait for a formal rollout. He took to X with a lengthy post laying out what he sees as voters' priorities now that Republicans have lost at the ballot box, per the report's context. Among the four main reasons he listed for disaffected Trump supporters to come home: a change in Washington's relationship with Israel.

That Israel line landed fast. Israeli President Isaac Herzog responded by expressing respect for both President Donald Trump and Vance, while acknowledging that anti-Israel sentiment is growing in the United States — especially among Democrats.

The backdrop is a party picking through the wreckage. Democrats won the midterms and took control of Congress, leaving Republicans to argue over what went wrong and who speaks for the base. Vance's answer, at least for now, is a sharper focus on the America First agenda that powered Trump's rise.

No details yet on what the coalition looks like in practice, who's being recruited or when it launches. Fox News' account relies on unnamed sources, and Vance's own X post remains the clearest public statement of his thinking.

Expect more from Vance soon — and more pushback from a party that's still nursing fresh wounds.