By Wonderwall.com Editors
6:36pm PDT, Apr 4, 2025
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The prospect of Donald Trump running for a third term in 2028 has been all the buzz in MAGA land, but a key member of the Trump administration hasn’t ruled out his own presidential bid.
On Thursday, April 3, Vice President J.D. Vance told Fox & Friends he’s open to the possibility of running for the country’s highest office – if Trump is cool with it, of course!
Keep reading to see what exactly Vance said…
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Vice President J.D. Vance told Fox & Friends of possibly running for president in 2028, “When we get to that point, I’ll talk to the president, we’ll figure out what we want to do. But the way that I think about it is, if we do a good job, the politics take care of themselves.”
“There’s so much to do, and I don’t really think that much about what happens in three and a half years,” he added.
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The New York Post reports that their sources within Vice President J.D. Vance’s circle have said that he’s “a likely front-runner for the GOP nomination,” though they emphasized that his nomination hinges on how he performs as the Republican National Committee’s finance chair during the 2026 midterm election.
The nomination is also contingent upon Vance’s ability to make it to 2028 without getting on President Donald Trump’s bad side.
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President Donald Trump recently laid out a path to a potential third term as president in which J.D. Vance plays an important role: In one scenario, Vance would run for president and then simply hand over the power to Trump.
“I’m not joking. But I’m not — it is far too early to think about it,” Trump told NBC News – though it was obvious he’d clearly done some thinking about the prospect.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson recently addressed the “constitutional path” to a third Donald Trump presidency: “You have to amend the Constitution to do it, and that’s a high bar,” he said. “The president and I have talked about this, joked about it. He’s joked about it with me on stage before. You know, we take him at his word.”
Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley has said that all the third-term talk is bad for J.D. Vance and the rest of the Republican party: “There’s a cost to this that may not be fair to people like Vance or others who are going to run,” Jonathan Turley said. “And that all of this talk tends to diminish them.”
“Part of Trump’s legacy will be securing the White House for a Republican,” he added. “And this type of talk reduces figures like Vance to sort of Mini-Mes, and that’s not a good thing for them.”
