 And I had asked him earlier in the day how he felt. He said he had a good feeling and that he was already sort of thinking about who he might want to replace the senator with if he was indeed tapped. He doesn't have any names on his mind just yet. Fox's Haidia Hasni at the Republican National Convention. Vance has been a Republican, a former critic of the former president when he was first elected to the Senate in 2022. He rose to fame after the publication of his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.