Lawmaker Floats Possibility of Vance Becoming de Facto Senate Leader

A social media post on a related discussion had attracted more than 4.7 million views, 25,000 reposts, and more than 4,000 comments as of Monday night.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) at the CPAC convention in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 28, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

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.