GOP Rep. Randy Fine Says He’s Supporting Anyone But Vance In 2028

Ever since Vice President JD Vance has gone on a media run promoting President Trump’s recent MOU with Iran, the Vice President has received heat from several Jewish lawmakers.

One of the biggest lawmakers to target Vance is Rep. Randy Fine.

On Saturday, Fine who has previously criticized Vance on his stance on Israel went a step further and posted “ABJD2028.”

Which means “Anyone But JD Vance” in the 2028 presidential election.

Take a look:

ABJD2028

— Randy Fine (@VoteRandyFine) June 19, 2026

The Hill reported more on Fine’s criticism of Vance:

Republican Rep. Randy Fine (Fla.) criticized Vice President Vance on Friday morning over his stark warning to Israel during a White House press briefing on Thursday.
“I thought JD’s comments yesterday were absolutely inappropriate and frankly disgusting,” Fine said on conservative network Real America’s Voice.

Vance criticized Israel’s leadership for speaking out against the memorandum of understanding signed by President Trump on Wednesday. The agreement opened a 60-day period for peace deal negotiations and brought a halt to hostilities, which was to include Lebanon.

“If I was in the Cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world,” Vance said.

Israel, which has been closely allied with the U.S. for decades, has carried out military actions targeting Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah since nearly the start of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed in a Friday morning statement that the Israeli military had struck Hezbollah “with force” on Thursday evening after a “heinous attack” from the militant group.

Iran has repeatedly stressed that a ceasefire with the U.S. is contingent on a halt in fighting between Israel and Lebanon.

“What the president has grown frustrated, sometimes, is that we seem to be right on the cusp of a major breakthrough in the agreement, and then all of a sudden there’s a major explosion that goes off in a civilian population center in Beirut, and a lot of people who have nothing to do with Hezbollah lose their lives. That’s not acceptable,” Vance said during his Thursday briefing.
Fine, who is Jewish, suggested Vance “would be wise to go back and learn his history.”

Other Jewish political voices have also been targeting Vance.

Here’s Ben Shapiro:

Ben Shapiro: "This MOU appears to be a disaster that does not achieve any of the signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning … in my opinion the vice president, the chief negotiator, has not well served the president" pic.twitter.com/4b5FGXLa7G

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 17, 2026

The Times of Israel reported more on Vance’s recent comments about pro-Israel Americans:

As he continues his interview blitz to promote his new book and the deal with Iran, US Vice President JD Vance asserts that pro-Israel American supporters of Israel “make two critical mistakes.”

“On the one hand, is [them] not delineating between America’s interests and Israeli interests, because they’re not always the same, but the second is always conflating criticism of a particular government with Jew hatred, because if everything is Jew hatred, then nothing is Jew hatred,” Vance tells conservative podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey. “I actually think Jew hatred is very bad, which is why I think we have to be very careful about not calling every[thing Jew hatred]. It’s kind of like how progressives for 20 years called everything racist, and if everything’s racism, nothing is racism. We have to be very careful not to, in order to serve a certain foreign policy objective, try to criticize somebody as antisemitic when they’re just not.”

He is then asked, “but the obsession to blame Israel in the GOP seems like a bigger problem than the Israel first crowd, no?”

“I see both, and I think both are bad. I’m probably particularly sensitive to the [second] thing because of the last two days I’ve been defending the president’s decision to [enter] the Iran deal, and I find often the arguments are, ‘Israel doesn’t think this is good, therefore it’s bad,’” claims Vance. “And my reaction is that Israel’s opinions matter, but fundamentally they are separate. But you’re right, there are certainly people who take every frustration with the Trump administration, every policy disagreement becomes because of Israel, and that is absolutely wrong. I think that is one of those things that can bleed into some very dark places.”

He adds: “I think that it’s upon us as leaders, as public commentators, to just try to be very rational about this, to try to distinguish what is legitimate disagreement from ethnic hatred… I actually think both the Trump administration, but the right generally is in a place of figuring this stuff out. Every debate has excesses on either side, but that’s part of the process of figuring this stuff out together.”

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