Vice President JD Vance said that he and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, will discuss whether he should run for president in 2028 after the 2026 midterm elections.

Vance told “CBS Sunday Morning” that he expects President Trump to support whatever decision he makes.

“I have no doubt that the president of the United States is going to be very supportive of anything that I ultimately decide to do,” Vance said.

“But we really just haven’t talked about what that thing will be,” he added.

CBS News explained further:

For now, Vance said his political future is not top of mind, remarking he is not “sitting around figuring out whether I’m going to run for president.

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“Usha and I will absolutely sit down and talk about what comes next for our family,” he said, adding that it will be after the results of the 2026 midterms elections. “The way I make decisions is, I try not to make them until I absolutely must.”

Vance noted in the interview that he never initiates discussions of his future plans with the president: “I never bring it up. But sure, the president brings it up a lot, sometimes publicly, sometimes privately. You know, the president’s a political animal. He loves this stuff. He’s very fascinated by it.”

Asked whether Mr. Trump is encouraging Vance to seek the GOP nomination, Vance replied, “It’s not positive or negative. It’s just … he kind of talks about it, like, ‘What’s gonna happen,’ you know? ‘How do we make sure that we’re successful? What does that mean for the future?’ It’s more of a conversation like that.

“So, we talk about it, but not in any great detail,” he said. “Because, again, I think both of us are focused on the here-and-now.”

Vance is widely regarded as the GOP frontrunner should he decide to enter the 2028 presidential election.

A recent poll showed Vance as the clear favorite in the 2028 Republican primary, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio coming in second.

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The former U.S. senator from Ohio has maintained a substantial lead, securing roughly twice as much support as the next top contender in both this most recent poll and The Center Square’s previous poll conduct in March. In this case, Marco Rubio was voters’ next choice among those presented with 17% of participants, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a distant 7%.

Seventeen percent of voters indicated they were unsure of who they would support in 2028.

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Rubio and DeSantis both enjoyed an uptick this time, likely due at least in part to the absence of Donald Trump Jr.’s name from the list of possible candidates. The president’s eldest son had been listed on previous polls and was twice the second pick behind Vance. In October, he polled at 25% to Vance’s 38% – the closest anyone has come to challenging the vice president. In March, some of that enthusiasm transferred to Rubio, who went from just 5% in October to 9%. Trump Jr. secured 19% support to Vance’s 36% in March.

The Center Square chose not to include Trump Jr. in its June poll because he recently said in a post on X that he had “zero interest” in running for office in 2028 “or any time soon” but that he’ll “never 100% rule it out down the line.”

“For this wave, we wanted the hypothetical Republican field to be more focused on candidates who seem more plausible as active contenders at this stage,” said Noble Predictive Insights founder Mike Noble.

Vance performed better among younger voters than any other single demographic. Forty-three percent of 18-29-year-olds polled rallied behind Vance. The only other demographics he reached the 40s in were people who voted for President Donald Trump in the last election and the Northeast region of the country.

 

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