Vance says he’ll examine political future after midterms

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Vice President Vance said he’ll explore next steps for his political career after the midterm elections as speculation about a potential 2028 presidential bid stirs.

“Usha and I will absolutely sit down and talk about what comes next for our family,” Vance told CBS, noting it will be the November elections.

“The way I make decisions is, I try not to make them until I absolutely must,” he added.

The vice president noted that he is laser focused on his role in the Trump administration for the time being.

“I really don’t ever want my thought about a future job, whether it’s president or anything else, to make me a worse vice president,” he told CBS.

“And the way to do that is to keep my attention on the job I have right now,” Vance added.

The vice president says he rarely asks the president about his future political plans.

“”I never bring it up. But sure, the president brings it up a lot, sometimes publicly, sometimes privately. You know, the president’s a political animal. He loves this stuff. He’s very fascinated by it,” Vance said.

“It’s not positive or negative. It’s just … he kind of talks about it, like, ‘What’s gonna happen,’ you know? ‘How do we make sure that we’re successful? What does that mean for the future?’ It’s more of a conversation like that.”

However, his comments come as Trump has floated a White House ticket with Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and as the two each separately hosted one of the White House press briefings last month.

Polling from Emerson College shows the vice president has a one percentage point advantage over Rubio as Republicans weigh in on future presidential nominees.

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