Lawmaker Floats Possibility of Vance Becoming de Facto Senate Leader

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) didn’t expect to cause a national ruckus when he casually said during a Nov. 8 late-night conversation with Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk that Vice President-elect JD Vance could also be the new Senate Majority Leader. A few hours later, Kirk shared Lee’s comment with media entrepreneur Glenn Beck on his BlazeTV program and pointed to an obscure precedent for the idea from the nation’s earliest days. “John Adams presided over the U.S. Senate as Senate Majority Leader 200 years ago as Vice President of the United States. I think JD Vance should be President of the Senate and become Senate Majority Leader. Sen. Mike Lee came up with this in a 1 a.m. phone call from him last night, and he had me at ‘hello,'” Kirk told Beck....