The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has refused to clarify whether he will support his vice president, JD Vance, in a potential candidacy for the White House in the 2028 elections, insisting that it is a matter they have "never" talked about and that for now it is "irrelevant," since the priority of the Republican Party is the imminent midterm elections.
From the Oval Office of the White House, and with Vance sitting next to him, Trump responded to the press's questions about the words of his 'number two' from the previous day, when he practically assumed that he would have the president's approval if he decided to run for the presidency in the future. "He is a very talented and very good person, but I literally think we have never talked about it," the president pointed out to reporters.
At that point, Vance briefly intervened to support Trump's version and clarify his previous statements in the mentioned interview: "No, sir. I also said that." Then, the president closed the debate about 2028: "I don’t talk about it with him. He doesn’t talk about it with me. It’s irrelevant. It’s still very early, we have to get through the 'midterms' and we’ll see how it goes."
With these words, the Republican leader tried to redirect attention to the intense campaign leading up to the legislative elections on November 3. Trump highlighted the "incredible" rally held the night before in Kansas in support of Republican Senator Roger Marshall, convinced that the event has propelled him "to the highest level where he should be," and also emphasized his trip to North Carolina to participate in another major electoral event.
Trump's statements somewhat cool the expectations fueled by Vance himself in an interview given this Tuesday to the 2Way platform. In that conversation, the vice president expressed full confidence that he would receive "immediate" support from the president if he tried to succeed him, a backing he described as "the most effective endorsement in political history" and considered key for the Republican base.
During that same intervention, Vance took the opportunity to profile his own political space and distanced himself from some recent decisions of Trump regarding foreign policy. The vice president avoided endorsing the explicit support that the president gave this weekend to the re-election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, by specifying that he does not intend to get involved in the Israeli elections and that his priority is limited to American candidates ahead of November 3.