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Donald Trump said he does not see JD Vance as his successor because it's too early now.
After President Donald Trump delivered the quickest 'no' when he was asked whether he saw vice president
JD Vance
as his natural inheritor of the MAGA movement, Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson commented that President Trump is wrong about JD Vance as he is the man to watch out for in the long game in politics. In her opinion piece for the New York Times, Anderson wrote that Vance talks about tech like a guy who doesn't;t need kids to help him reset his Wi-Fi password.
"That's saying something for a political leader in our country, and is but one facet of what sets him apart from much of the Washington gerontocracy," she wrote in the context of JD Vance's remarks on Artificial Intelligence in Paris that turned the heads at the global stage.
"As a pollster, I’ve seen voters’ desire for fresh energy and ideas come from a worry that our politics are stagnant and stuck on the status quo."
"Which is why I was struck this week when Mr Trump was asked directly if he viewed Mr Vance as his successor for 2028, and replied that he did not. He praised Mr Vance for doing a “fantastic job” but said, in his view, it was “too early” to anoint him as the next Republican nominee," Anderson wrote.
"While it is understandable that Mr Trump is focused on the here and now, not what comes after his presidency, it is hardly too early to see the obvious. Mr Vance is the natural inheritor of the movement Mr Trump has built, with a keen grasp on what binds many of Mr Trump’s supporters — especially his younger supporters — to him, both in style and in substance," she added.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump was asked if he considered Vance to be his successor in the 2028 election. Trump will be 82 by that time completing his second and maximum term though he has dropped enough hints that he wants to contest again making required changes to the Constitution.
