James Carville Predicts JD Vance Will Be GOP Presidential Nominee In 2028

Democratic strategist James Carville forecast on “Conversations with Bill Kristol” on Friday that Vice President JD Vance would likely be the Republican presidential nominee in 2028.

Vance appears well-positioned to secure the Republican presidential nomination in 2028, CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said in August, citing his huge lead in early polling and the historic success of sitting vice presidents when seeking their party’s nomination. Carville argued on the “Never-Trump” conservative’s podcast that Vance was ambitious and talented and likely on a glide path to the nomination unless President Donald Trump were to turn on him.

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“He’s consolidating everything. I just don’t see — he’s ingratiated himself to all of these internal groups. He’s a person of some — it’s not my cup of tea — but he’s obviously a person of considerable ambition and talent,” Carville told Kristol. “And he’s plotting his course. I don’t see anybody that’s going to be able to — unless Trump were to blow up at him or something like that would happen, I don’t know … It’s really hard to see him not being a nominee in 2028.”

“Interesting,” Kristol replied. “Interesting.”

Trump asserted during an August White House ceremony that Vance was “probably favored” to carry the Make America Great Again mantle in 2028.