Vice President JD Vance said Friday that he is not focusing at this time on the 2028 presidential election, after President Donald Trump earlier this week his vice president is a likely heir to lead the MAGA movement.
"I'm not focused even on the election in 2026, much less one two years after that," Vance told reporters during remarks while meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at the official's summer home, Chevening House, in Kent.
Adding that he didn't want to talk about "lowly things" like politics in Lammy's "grand house," Vance commented that he believes the matter will work itself out.
"If we do a good job for the American people, the politics will take care of itself, so I'm going to try to do a good job for the American people, just as David's trying to do a good job for the people of the UK," said Vance.
Trump said, in comments after signing an executive order creating a task force to lead federal coordination for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, that it is "likely" Vance could take the reins of his MAGA movement.
The president added, however, that Secretary of State Marco Rubio "is also somebody that maybe would get together with JD in some form."
He also said it's too early to discuss the matter, but added that Vance is "doing a great job, and he would probably be favored at this point."
Vance's polling numbers, in a recent survey by JL Partners, show he is the top choice of 46% of GOP voters for the 2028 race, placing him far ahead of several candidates, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, with 8% and Vivek Ramaswamy with 7%.
Meanwhile, Vance, and Lammy discussed a wide range of foreign policy issues, marking the vice president's highest-profile international trips in office.
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