Vance says he will discuss 2028 run with family after midterms

Vice President JD Vance said he will discuss a potential 2028 presidential campaign with his wife, Usha, after the 2026 midterm elections, his most explicit timeline to date for deciding whether to enter the race. He also said he is confident President Donald Trump will back his decision.

“Usha and I will absolutely sit down and talk about what comes next for our family,” Vance said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, where he discussed his new memoir, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” which details his conversion to Catholicism. “People sort of assume that I’m sitting around, figuring out, whether I’m gonna run for president … the way that I make decisions is that I try not to make them until I absolutely must.”

Vance is widely viewed as a top contender for the Republican presidential nomination. Other potential candidates include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a former presidential candidate, and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, who has expressed interest in higher office, according to The Washington Post.

“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.

The vice president said he never brings up his future political plans with Trump. “I never bring it up. But sure, the president brings it up a lot, sometimes publicly, sometimes privately,” Vance said. “You know, the president’s a political animal. He loves this stuff. He’s very fascinated by it.”

When asked whether Trump has explicitly asked him to seek the Republican nomination, Vance described Trump’s posture as “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,” Vance said.

The Washington Post reported, citing an unnamed source close to Vance, that the vice president may have delayed his decision on a 2028 run in part because of the upcoming birth of his fourth child, who is due in July.