Donald Trump has made a startling admission about JD Vance running for president in 2028, just hours after his vice president blamed the war with Iran for the Republicans’ crushing midterm defeat.
In the aftermath of the Republicans’ devastating midterm defeat, Vice President JD Vance shared a blistering assessment of his party’s failures, setting the stage for a potential 2028 presidential campaign while appearing to distance himself from Donald Trump.
“The reason we lost is the war,” Vance wrote in a lengthy X post, referring to the ongoing conflict with Iran.
Vance said polling revealed that Republicans voters who supported Trump in 2024 had switched sides, frustrated by the war, rising living costs, the administration’s America First priorities and Washington’s relationship with Israel.
“Everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there,” the vice president wrote.
“I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, ‘I told you so,’ you’re right, you did tell us so,” added Vance, who once called Trump “America’s Hitler.”
“I thought it was good’
While Vance confronted the political fallout from the Republican defeat, Trump appeared in a celebratory mood, watching the final beam rise into place at his unfinished White House ballroom, where reporters pressed him about his vice president’s assessment.
“I know how he feels about it. I think it was – I think it was fine. Yeah, I thought it was good,” Trump said of Vance’s social media post, according to ABC News.
The POTUS also acknowledged that the war “drove the gasoline up a little bit short-term,” but stood by his decision, saying, “I can tell you that as far as that war is concerned, I would have done nothing different.”
“If I had it to do again, I’d have to do it again,” he stressed, adding, “because long-term it’s the only answer. You can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” he said, according to the New York Times.
The president then doubled down on his earlier Truth Social claim, insisting if his name had been on the ballot, “we would have won,” Reuters reports.
‘I don’t know who’s going to run’
But when reporters shifted their attention to the 2028 presidential election, Trump’s confidence in his vice president’s political future appeared less certain.
“I speak to him about a lot of things, but I mean, we’ll see what happens,” Trump said, according to The Hill.
Then came his surprising admission.
“You don’t know who’s talking about running,” Trump told reporters. “Maybe you have a lot of people running. Maybe nobody’s going to run. Maybe he won’t run. I don’t know who’s going to run.”
Vance has expressed similar uncertainty, telling 2WAY’s Mark Halperin on Oct. 19, “I really have not made up my mind about what to do in 2028.”
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