“Two days after the midterms, we get into a cycle, meaning 2028. 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,” Fox News host Sean Hannity said during an interview with the vice president on Thursday. “Thinking about it at all?”
Vance responded, “I would say that I’ve thought about what that moment might look like after the midterm elections, sure. 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. 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. 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 ten months. 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,” Vance said, Mediaite reported.
While Trump has repeatedly quipped about running for a third term in the White House in 2028, he will be constitutionally ineligible.
“I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad. I mean, it’s too bad,” conceded Trump last month. “But we have a lot of great people.”
Trump then proposed Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as potential running mates for the 2028 Republican ticket.