JD Vance Not Sure Trump Would Endorse Him in 2028: ‘I Don’t Know, Man’

Vice President JD Vance admitted he isn’t entirely certain President Donald Trump would endorse him if he ran for president in 2028, exclaiming, “I don’t know, man.”

Vance sat down with journalist Mark Halperin for an interview on Monday, which aired on his 2WAY platform.

The journalist first referenced recent remarks from the vice president, in which he insisted that “whoever the president endorses for the Republican nomination will ultimately win the Republican primary.”

“I thought, ‘Well, don’t the voters get a say in this?'” Halperin noted.

Vance agreed, explaining, though, that he thinks the president gained the deep trust of his base when the party’s “elites” were against him.

“That’s the person they say, ‘Okay, if Trump is with a guy, that must mean that the elites are against that guy,” the vice president continued. “I think that Trump’s endorsement just carries more weight than any political endorsement in history because of that. Obviously, the voters are gonna decide. Donald Trump is only one vote of many, but I think his endorsement is still the most powerful.”

Halperin went on to reference a recent panel he conducted in which he asked about a potential Vance presidential bid and whether Trump would endorse him. While all four panelists believed the vice president was almost certain to run, they also predicted Trump would withhold his endorsement for some time to “toy with” his vice president.

Emphasizing that he remains focused on the upcoming midterms and unsure about 2028, Vance added, “I think if I run, the president will endorse me.”

“Right away?” Halperin followed up.

“I would think so, but I don’t know, man,” the vice president acknowledged. “I haven’t talked to him about it.”

“It’d be kinda weird if you said to him, ‘Mr. President, I’m gonna run,’ and he said, ‘Yeah, let me think about it,'” the journalist pointed out.

“No, I don’t think it’d be weird,” Vance pushed back. “Again, I think I would get his endorsement, but I also think there’s something to be said for people actually running their own race, and because the president’s endorsement is so dispositive, you could absolutely see a scenario where the president says, ‘You know what? We need to let, like, this race play out and not, like, preemptively prejudge the results.'”

“You might be horrible at it,” remarked Halperin.

“I might be terrible at it,” agreed the vice president. “So, I don’t know. Again, having never spoken to the president about this, I can’t speak to his psychology on it, but my attitude is that if I run, I think the president would endorse me, but I also haven’t talked to him about it yet.”

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