Vance is already looking ahead to the next presidential election. He knows what’s at stake.
And Vance made a 2028 election prediction that will make your jaw drop.
Vice President JD Vance didn’t hold back during his appearance on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” Wednesday night, ripping into the Democrats’ likely 2028 presidential hopefuls. He painted a picture of a party in total chaos, stuck between two failures: Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom. Vance argued that whichever one comes out on top will be the dumber choice, exposing just how broken the left has become.
“I mean, look, the Democrats have a couple of big issues,” Vance said on the Fox News program. He slammed the party’s embrace of extreme ideologies that blind them to basic truths. Vance made it clear that Harris’s rise has been a joke from the start, handed positions she never earned.
“One is that they lean so far into wokeism that they can’t see the obviousness of the fact, which is that Kamala Harris is not qualified to be president of the United States. That’s why she got the vice presidential nomination [in 2020]. That’s why she got the presidential nomination [in 2024]. This is who Kamala Harris is,” Vance declared, laying out her track record of incompetence.
Shifting his fire to Newsom, Vance called out the California governor’s disastrous leadership. “Now, the flip side is, I think you have an unbelievably corrupt and incompetent governor in Gavin Newsom,” he said.
“The fact that those are the two front-runners just suggest how deeply deranged the Democrat Party is. Let them fight it out, we’ll figure it out,” Vance added.
Polls back up Vance’s take, showing Newsom edging out Harris in a hypothetical Democratic primary. According to RealClearPolitics, the slick-talking governor pulls 23.6% support, while the former VP trails at 21.4%.
Behind the scenes, the tension between these two California elites is boiling over. The New York Times spilled the drama last month, revealing bad blood after Newsom didn’t return Harris’s call on the day Biden bailed on his reelection.
Adding to the irony, both climbed the political ladder on the same day over two decades ago. On January 8, 2004, Newsom took the oath as San Francisco’s mayor, while Harris became the city’s district attorney. Fast-forward to now, and they’re clawing at each other for the top spot in a sinking ship.
On the Republican side, things couldn’t be more different. Vance dominates the GOP field for 2028, leading by a massive 37.8 percentage points over Donald Trump Jr. in the RealClearPolitics average. It’s a clear mandate for the young firebrand who’s already proven his mettle.
Vance has his eyes on the prize but isn’t rushing. He’s laser-focused on crushing the 2026 midterms first, then hashing out 2028 plans with President Trump after the November vote. It’s smart strategy from a leader who knows how to build real momentum.
Diving deeper into the Democrats’ empty playbook, Vance exposed their lack of substance. “They have nothing to actually run on or govern on,” he said.
“Their entire obsessive focus of that party is they hate Donald Trump. So if they ever get power, are they going to, you know, lower Americans’ taxes? No. Are they going to make your life more affordable? No. Are they going to solve the crime crisis? No,” Vance added.
“What they’re going to do is they’re going to spend all of their time and all of your money trying to get Donald Trump,” he continued.
He urged voters to wake up and choose wisely. “I think it’s ridiculous. I think it’s ridiculous that’s what they’re running on. But the American people are going to make this determination. I think the American people should vote for the people who want to make their life more affordable and want to make their neighborhoods safer. That’s what we’re trying to deliver every single day,” Vance emphasized.
When discussing Democrats’ attempts to own the affordability narrative—despite Trump facing heat on those issues—Vance brushed it off with confidence.
“No, I’m not worried about that for the simple reason that the cost-of-living crisis, and it is real for a lot of American families, was caused by the Democrats,” he stated.
“We haven’t even been in office for a year and you’ve already seen prices start to come down. You’ve seen rent start to come down. You’ve seen groceries leveling off. Is there more work to do? Absolutely.”
Vance’s words hit hard because they ring true for millions tired of liberal excuses. As the Democrats scramble with their unqualified contenders, Republicans under Trump and Vance are delivering results.
