Vice President J.D. Vance is in no hurry to announce a run for the presidency, Fox News reported. He was asked about his political future on Fox&Friends Thursday but said he was "not focused on politics."
Vance sat for an interview with Fox News' Lawrence Jones, and the host asked him about whether he would run when President Donald Trump's term ends in 2028. "I really am just not focused on politics," Vance said.
"I'm not focused on the midterm elections in 2026, much less the presidential election in 2028. When we get to that point, I'll talk to the president. We'll figure out what we want to do. The way I think about it is, if we do a good job, the politics take care of themselves."
Vance and Trump are currently focused on getting the things they were elected to do done. One of the main priorities is return the U.S. to prosperity.
"I just want America to be wealthy again. I want our communities to be safe again. I want us to be opening factories rather than closing down factories," Vance told Jones.
"I want people of my generation to be able to afford a home, to raise a family. And I want to stop all the ridiculous wars that were started by the previous administrations. There's so much to do, man," Vance continued.
Biden left office with a legacy of record inflation, a tattered economy, out of control immigration, and other domestic woes. Vance said he's focused on taking care of those problems first.
"If I do a good job, if the president does good for the American people, and I know that we will, the politics will take care of itself. Let's just do a good job," Vance said.
Trump's tariffs went into effect this week, and Jones asked Vance about the consequences ordinary Americans may face. "What I’d ask folks to appreciate here is that we are not going to fix things overnight," Vance told Jones.
The vice president said that Biden left the "largest peacetime debt and deficit in the history of the United States of America" that also comes with untenable interest rates. Vance said that the "right deregulation" will take the heat off of workers while ensuring foreign nations "can't take advantage of us anymore."
Vance also talked up the Department of Government Efficiency run by Tesla billionaire Elon Musk for cutting spending. "Elon came in, and we said, ‘We need you to make government more efficient. We need you to shrink the incredible, vast bureaucracy that thwarts the will of the American people, but also costs way too much money.’" Vance recalled.
"And we said that’s going to take about six months, and that’s what Elon signed up for," he added. The vice president cautioned that it won't "happen all in six months" but instead will be "a long and committed effort."
Trump and Vance were elected to fix what's wrong with the nation's economy right now. If their novel strategies of implementing tariffs and making cuts through DOGE are effective, Vance is correct that he will be set up to run for president in 2028.
