Just remember that Trump dying would set off an internal power struggle. Nobody likes or give a shit who or what Vance supports, so he would have precisely fuck-all a far as pull in down ballot elections. For whatever reason, the base will slobber over every word trump blurts out so any dissent is crippling in a Republican, that would disappear and every Republican worth the title of ‘politician’ would take advantage of a Vance leadership as a once in a lifetime opportunity out-Trump the competition, but without the centralizing firehose of bullshit trump has been able to use to distract from issues as they come up. Right now trump is able to distract from almost literally any topic by being a force to deal with immediately as he sets other fires to deal with. Vance will have the position, butwon’t have that talent and by virtue of their position no other GOP personality will have the power.

Basically don’t stop looking forward to a least bad outcome like natural causes.