Vice President of the United States J.D. Vance has reacted after President Donald Trump refused to outright endorse him as his successor.
Trump speaking with Fox News host, Bret Baier, said he wasn’t yet ready to endorse Vance for a 2028 presidential run of his own.
But he added “No, but he’s very capable.”
When asked in an interview with the Daily Mail about Trump’s remarks, Vance laughed it off.
“I think he said exactly what he should have said, which is: “It’s too early”,’ he replied.
Vance said that his only current focus is “the American people’s business” and not politics.
He added: “There will be a time to focus on politics, of course — [like] the midterms [in November 2026] — so let’s do a good job and then worry about the midterms.
“And then we’ll worry about presidential politics at the appropriate time.”
James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American politician, author, attorney, and Marine Corps veteran serving as the 50th vice president of the United States since 2025 under President Donald Trump.
A member of the Republican Party, he represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate from 2023 to 2025.
Vance was born in Middletown, Ohio. After high school, Vance joined the Marine Corps, where he served as a military journalist from 2003 to 2007, and was deployed to the Iraq War for six months in 2005.
He graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor’s degree in 2009 and Yale Law School with a law degree in 2013.
He practiced briefly as a corporate lawyer before embarking on a career in the tech industry as a venture capitalist. His memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was published in 2016[2] and adapted into a film in 2020.
Vance won the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio, defeating Democratic nominee Tim Ryan. After initially opposing Donald Trump’s candidacy in the 2016 election,
Vance became a strong Trump supporter during Trump’s first presidency. In July 2024, Trump selected Vance as his running mate before the Republican National Convention. He served as Ohio’s senator until his resignation in preparation to assume the vice presidency in January 2025.
Vance is the third-youngest vice president in U.S. history, as well as the first millennial to hold the office.
