Vice President JD Vance may be the best thing to happen to the Republican Party since, well, his current boss. He’s clearly an up-and-comer; young, bright, thinks on his feet, has a compelling back story and a beautiful family. Best of all, he doesn’t take any guff from the legacy media – or anyone else.

Now the Republicans are giving him a significant role in the 2026 mid-terms. That’s unusual, for a vice president to be this ingrained in the party during a mid-term election, but if there’s one thing the Trump/Vance administration has done, it’s to upset a lot of the old norms. That’s for the best.

Vice President JD Vance will serve as the Republican National Committee’s finance chair, telling Fox News Digital that he will work with the party to “fully enact the MAGA mandate” and grow the Republican majority in Congress in 2026.

This is the first time in the history of the GOP that a sitting vice president will serve in the role. An RNC official initially said the group’s Executive Committee voted unanimously to confirm Vance in the role but later clarified that Vance was appointed by RNC Chair Michael Whatley.

An RNC official told Fox News Digital that Vance serving as finance chair is “unprecedented” and shows “just how much the White House and the RNC are in lockstep this cycle.”

It is nice, I have to say, to see the GOP this coherent for once. I was involved in some local politics in Colorado when we lived there, in the first few years after the last Republican Governor of the Centennial State, Bill Owens, left office in 2007. I had occasion to speak with Governor Owens shortly after that; his kids and ours went to the same school, and he had been our state representative when I was a precinct captain, so we knew each other. The Colorado GOP was in the process of forming a circular firing squad, and I asked Bill if he was involved in the party anymore, but he indicated he was leaving politics for good. He did some presidential campaign work, but not much as far as Colorado was concerned.

We all know what happened to Colorado, of course. A party that isn’t unified has a much harder time winning elections; Colorado was, in those days, a pretty good example.

Vance, in a statement to Fox News Digital, reflected on Trump’s “historic election victory, taking back the White House and helping Republicans regain control of the Senate and retain control of the House.”

“But to fully enact the MAGA mandate and President Trump’s vision that voters demanded, we must keep and grow our Republican majorities in 2026,” Vance said.

The GOP now, at least at the national level, is sticking together. Could it be that we’ve all learned a thing or two?