Vice President JD Vance is focused on the present, but has one eye looking forward to 2028.
Vance told Fox News host Sean Hannity Thursday he will to “sit down with the president” and “talk to him” about running for president in 2028 — the 2026 midterm elections, per Mediaite.
“Have you thought at all– I mean, I would think it has to go through your head. You’re in the Oval Office every day. Thinking about it at all?” Hannity asked.
Vance said he has a job to do now, but does think about the possibility.
“I would say that I’ve thought about what that moment might look like after the midterm elections, sure,” Vance said. “But I also, whenever I think about that, I try to put it out of my head and remind myself the American people elected me to do a job right now and my job is to do it.”
“And if you start getting distracted and focused on what comes next, I think it actually makes you worse at the job you have. Here’s what will happen,” he continued. “I mean, look, we are very focused on the midterm elections, I think, because what the president has set in motion is a long-term economic revitalization effort for this country.”
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He reiterated the importance of the GOP winning the midterms.
“I really want us to win the midterms because, if the Democrats get in power, they’re gonna try to screw up a lot of the great things the president of the United States has done over the past 10 months,” Vance said.
“Again, trees that have been planted, some of which won’t even bear fruit for a few years. I don’t want the Democrats to screw that up. So we’re going to win the midterms, we’re going to do everything that we can to win the midterms, and then after that, I’m going to sit down with the president of the United States and talk to him about it,” the vice president said.
Vance also stressed the importance of the present.
“But let’s focus on the now because we’ve got well over a year to do as much as we can for the American people and my attitude, Sean, is– look, if we do a good job, the politics will take care of itself. If we do a terrible job, the politics will take care of itself in the other direction. So I’m just gonna focus on the job that I have,” he said.
Trump has teased about running for a third term in 2028, but will be constitutionally ineligible.
“I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad. I mean, it’s too bad,” Trump said last month. “But we have a lot of great people.”
Trump has suggested Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as potential running mates.
