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JD Vance and Trump make 2028 move..?

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

President Donald Trump’s administration has been riding high in his second term, presiding over a growing economy, rising deportations, and growing paychecks, and more Americans feeling like their country is on the right track.

He’s reaping huge political benefits—and so is his vice president, J.D. Vance.

Most people now assume the former Ohio senator and Hillbilly Elegy author will run for president in his own right in three short years and continue the Trump administration’s work.

He’s got good news and bad news. First, the good news: He’s the established leader in every 2028 presidential poll. The bad news, someone in his party just made a huge announcement that could rock Vance and change the face of U.S. politics forever.

It’s true Republicans currently support Vance—and they have for a long time.

It began the first time the country got to see Vance speak for himself on a national platform, as he completely dominated Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.

They loved his epic smack down of “Meet the Press” host Margaret Brennan with the line, “I don’t really care, Margaret.”

His decision to call grandstanding California Senator Alex Padilla—who intentionally got himself arrested complaining about ICE agents arresting rioters in Los Angeles—as “Jose,” the name of a convicted murderer and terrorist.

Now, a new poll shows just how dominantly Vance would loom over most of his competitors in 2028.

“Vice President Vance has solidified himself as the frontrunner in the 2028 nomination contest, backed by 52% of male Republican primary voters and voters over 60,” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of  Emerson College Polling. His latest poll, released in June, showed Vance nearing an outright majority of Republican support to become the next presidential nominee: 46 percent of Republicans back Vance, almost four times as many as his nearest competitor, Marco Rubio. Everyone else scored in single digits.

That builds on a J.L. Partners poll from last month, which found Vance with the exact same support, 46 percent of Republicans, but Florida Governor Ron DeSantis came in a distant second with nine percent.

In fact, there’s just one Republican who, according to polls, J.D. Vance couldn’t beat: President Donald Trump.

The same polling firm, J.L. Partners, ran the numbers in April and found President Donald Trump would beat Vance by 20 points in a 2028 GOP presidential primary—and crush everyone else.

But President Trump has ruled out a third term, and so has the 22nd Amendment.

“I’ll be an eight-year president. I’ll be a two-term president. I always thought that was very important,” President Trump told the media in late May, after months of flirting with the idea of a third term. “I’m looking to have four great years and turn it over to somebody, ideally a great Republican.”

But just because that Trump isn’t running for president doesn’t mean no Trump is running.

J.D. Vance might just face the biggest challenge of his political career—from President Trump’s son.

Not that one, the other one.

“The political path” to become part of the Trump family dynasty “would be an easy one,” Eric Trump told the Financial Times recently.

Like his father, he isn’t in awe of the politicians he sees in either party. The younger Trump said he’s “wholly unimpressed by half the politicians I see” up close in Washington. ”I could do it very effectively,” he said with confidence.

The 41-year-old Trump son said only one thing would hold him back: “The real question is: ‘Do you want to drag other members of your family into it? Would I want my kids to live the same experience over the last decade that I’ve lived?’” asked Eric Trump.

But the Trump heir erased any doubt about what he would do if ever made up his mind that he should throw his red MAGA hat in the ring.

“If the answer was yes, I think the political path would be an easy one — meaning, I think I could do it,” said Eric Trump. “And by the way, I think other members of our family could do it, too.”

That answer may just explain why President Trump has always played a little bit coy about the vice president’s future role as a MAGA leader.

“Do you view J.D. Vance as your successor for the Republican nominee in 2028?” asked Fox News host Bret Baier earlier this year.

“No, but he’s very capable. I think you have a lot of very capable people,” he said.

Trump immediately added that, “so far, he is doing a fantastic job” and, at the moment, “it’s too early” to endorse anyone in 2025.

Just a few days later, when New York Post columnist Miranda Devine asked if Donald Jr. or another of his children would run for president, Donald Sr. told her, “I don’t know. I think all of them probably have a future in politics, frankly.”

“Eric has done a fantastic job,” President Trump added. He went on to praise all his children.

With polls still favoring the Trump-Vance administration, the president may feel he can safely hand the MAGA movement over to his vice president.

But if the midterms go south, or Vance makes such a misstep that Trump believes he would endanger the Republican Party, is it possible he could convince Don Jr. or Eric Trump to save the party.

Will the Trumps join the Adams, Roosevelt, and Bush families as one of the nation’s great political dynasties? Or will they step aside for J.D. Vance to take the spotlight over the next four or eight years?

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”