Vance addresses potential 2028 presidential ticket 

By Jack Phillips 
Contributing Writer 

Vice President JD Vance addressed the possibility of a 2028 presidential ticket with him and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on it, brushing off the idea of a bid but saying he’d be open to it later on. 

“My attitude is the American people elected me to be vice president,” Vance said in a New York Post interview in response to a question about whether he’d be running in 2028, describing the prospect as “premature.” 

“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 something else is in the offer, let’s handle it then.” 

Vance then added, “Let’s at least get through the next couple of years and do good work for the American people before we talk about politics.” 

“We’re still so early,” Vance said in the interview. “And what I always say to people is if we take care of business, the politics will take care of itself. And we’re nine months into this thing. We’ve done a lot of good. There’s a lot more work to do.” 

Earlier in the week, President Donald Trump suggested the idea of Vance and Rubio leading the GOP after he leaves office in early 2029. 

“We have JD, obviously, the vice president, who’s great,” Trump said. “Marco’s great. I’m not sure if anyone would run against those two. I think if they ever formed a group, it would be unstoppable.” 

After the comment, Vance told the Post that there is no tension in his relationship with Rubio. He said that Rubio is his “best friend in the administration.” 

Rubio and Vance both served as Republican senators before they joined the Trump administration in early 2025. Rubio was elected as a Florida senator in 2010, while Vance was elected as an Ohio senator in 2022. 

“I’ve never woken up and thought to myself, ‘How do I make myself president of the United States,’” he told the outlet. “What I wake up and think to myself is, ‘How do I do a good job as vice president?’ And I think Marco Rubio asks himself, ‘How do I do a good job as secretary of state?’ And that should be the question that each of us keeps on asking ourselves.” 

Earlier this week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said in an interview with CBS News that he may run for president in 2028 and would consider it after the 2026 midterm elections. 

Since Trump took office, he has been asked several times whether he might mount an attempt to run for president a third time. While Trump has suggested before that he may run again, the president has said on multiple occasions that he isn’t allowed to run a third time and isn’t considering it, including in comments to reporters on Air Force One earlier this week. 

The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment stipulates that “no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.”