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Vice President J.D. Vance talked this week about the possibility of a potential 2028 presidential run for himself and a future Republican running mate while sitting down for an interview on the podcast “Pod Force One” with Miranda Devine.
There has been much discussion about whether the vice president would be interested in running to be the potential 48th President of the United States when President Donald Trump finishes his second term in the White House.
Some have speculated that Vice President Vance should join forces with a potential running mate like Secretary of State Marco Rubio on a 2028 Republican ticket.
“The president first raised this with me probably six months or so ago,” Vice President Vance said, “during just one of our private lunches…he mentioned it probably six months ago or so and I mentioned it to the secretary in jest, but it feels so premature, because we’re still so early and what I always say to people is, if we take care of business, the politics will take care of itself.”
Just this week, President Trump, while speaking on Air Force One, remarked of Vance and Rubio, “I think if they ever formed a group, it would be unstoppable.”
Vance told Devine, “We’re nine months into this thing, we’ve done a lot of good, there’s a lot more work to do…the thing I’m most worried about is that Biden left us a terrible affordability crisis. We’ve got to make life more affordable for American citizens. Again, we’ve chipped away at that problem, but there’s a lot more work to do there.”
He continued, “My attitude is, the American people elected me to be vice president, I’m going to work as hard as I can to make the president successful over the next three years and three months, and if we get to a point where [there’s] something else in the coffer, let’s handle it then – but let’s at least get through the next couple of years and do good work for the American people before we talk about politics.”
The vice president said that he has never “woken up and asked thought to myself, ‘How do I make myself the President of the United States?’”
Instead, Vance remarked, “What I wake up and think to myself is, ‘How do I do a good job as vice president?’”
