As President Donald Trump’s support continues to crater to historic lows, so too do Vice President JD Vance’s 2028 presidential ambitions — at least according to one individual “close to” the president.
“Trump is imploding, and he’s probably going to take JD down with him unless there’s a course correction,” a source “close to Trump” told Zeteo in a report Monday, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Vance has long been seen as a potential GOP presidential candidate for 2028, but has been on something of a “losing streak” since taking the position of vice president, argued Zeteo senior political correspondent Asawin Suebsaeng.
That “losing streak,” Suebsaeng suggested, began last April when Vance “met Pope Francis, who promptly died,” and culminated on Saturday after he left negotiations with Iranian officials empty-handed, and without an agreement to end the U.S. war against Iran.
“To get the standard throat-clearing out of the way: Anything could happen between now and 2028. Nobody should count Vance out of any possible presidential contest,” Suebsaeng wrote. “But as things currently stand, it is hard to imagine things going worse for the man President Trump has called his ‘handsome son of a b----.’ And it’s almost entirely because Trump forced Vance into this position.”
Polling hasn’t been kind to Vance either, with CNN’s Harry Enten revealing recently that the vice president’s net approval rating had fallen by 21 points since January of 2025, making Vance "historically the least popular vice president at this point in their vice presidency.”
“Domestically and electorally, the outlook isn’t any rosier for the vice president,” Suebsaeng wrote.