WASHINGTON (TNND) — Vice President JD Vance dismissed questions about President Trump’s suggestion that he join a possible 2028 presidential ticket with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, saying that they are “focused on accomplishing the American people’s business.”
Vance was asked about the potential ticket during a news conference on Wednesday about the Trump administration’s fraud crackdown.
“I love Marco. I think he’s a great secretary of state. He’s become a very, very dear friend. But I think both of us are very much focused on accomplishing the American people’s business right now,” Vance said.
On Monday, Trump teased a potential ticket with Vance and Rubio, but did not say which of the pair should run for president. In February, Vance said the media was creating “conflict” when asked about alleged tension between him and Rubio.
“Who likes J.D. Vance? Who likes Marco Rubio? All right. Sounds like a good ticket,” Trump said. “By the way, I do believe that’s a dream team.”
Vance said that being on a potential ticket is one of the topics he least likes to discuss when he is “having a good time and trying to do good work in the job that the American people already elected me to do.”
“If I was the American people, there are a few things that I would hate more than a person who’s barely been in one office for a year and a half, is angling for a job two and a half years down the road,” Vance said, referencing himself.
Another reporter said during the news conference that the media was not promoting 2028 tension between Vance and Rubio as Trump floated the potential ticket.
“I just don’t think it sounds like the president of the United States to have a televised competition for who would succeed him as his apprentice,” Vance quipped in response to the reporter. “I just think that’s not at all what you would expect the president to do.”
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Vance said it was “natural” for Trump to joke around with him and Rubio, and that the president has “always been fascinated by politics.”