Vice President JD Vance said there is “of course” a chance he skips 2028, calling himself a procrastinator who will decide after the midterms.

At a town hall in Monroe, Michigan, near Detroit, Vance faced the question hanging over his political future: is there a chance he will not run for president in 2028? He did not close the door. He also did not lock it open.

CBS News’s Tony Dokoupil put the speculation to him directly. Vance’s answer was plain, and it pushed the choice past November’s elections and deeper into family life, not into a campaign launch.

Washington Examiner reporting on the Saturday-night release captured Vance’s first move on the question in a single line.

"Of course there’s a chance,"

He then stretched the point into how he actually makes big calls, and why the calendar, not the chatter, comes first.

"Yeah, man, we’ve got four little kids. My wife has never loved politics, she loves public service. I think you can do a lot of good in this job, and I’ve tried to do as much good as possible. But, I really, people ask me this question all the time, and I think they assume because I’m a politician, ‘of course he’s going to run for president in 2028.’ The way that I think about big life decisions, my wife will tell you this, is I’m a procrastinator. I hate thinking about it. And what will happen is, that, first of all, after all these fine people elect Mike Rogers United States Senator for the state of Michigan, what’s going to happen is then I’ll have to think about. And then I will actually have to make a decision. But, you know, anything can happen, man, anything."

That is not the script of a man racing to book Iowa. It is a vice president putting the midterms, a Michigan Senate race, and a household with four young children ahead of the next presidential draft.

Family comes before the 2028 draft

Vance did not treat the presidency as an automatic next step. He described public service as worth doing and politics as something his wife has never loved. He tied the delay to real life at home, not to a messaging drill.

Readers tracking that household already know the pressure of raising four kids in the vice president’s residence, a theme that has followed Usha Vance’s own comments on family life in the job.

He also framed the sequence in hard political order. First Michigan voters finish their Senate business. Then he thinks. Then he decides. “Anything can happen” was the closer, not a tease for a soft launch.

The personal stake is not abstract. Vance has spoken before about marriage, children, and the pull between public duty and private judgment, including coverage of how Usha Vance handled a family naming decision in their own home.

Midterms first, nomination talk later

Dokoupil also asked whether Republicans will hold the Senate in November’s midterm elections. Vance’s public posture stayed rooted in voters, not in palace intrigue.

"I fundamentally trust the judgment of the American people,"

He is already working that midterm message on the trail, including recent turns where Vance urged voters to stick with Republicans while warning signs flashed in prediction markets.

He named Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate picture as the marker before any 2028 choice. In his telling, the country gets a Senate election. He gets a decision only after that.

2028 names are already floating in both parties. On the Republican side, Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are widely discussed as figures tied to the next chapter of the movement President Donald Trump leads. Rubio has not publicly committed to a run. On the Democratic side, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, and former Vice President Kamala Harris are among those mentioned.

Early trial heats are already testing those lanes, including a recent survey in which Rubio outperformed Vance in nearly every 2028 matchup against Democrats.

Gas prices, Iran, and the rest of the Q&A

The town hall was not only about 2028. Audience and moderator questions reached data centers, allegations of corruption inside the White House, and the price of gas at home.

On energy costs, Vance did not dodge the kitchen-table hit.

"I will be the first one to tell you gas prices are too high,"

He linked part of that pain to conflict involving Iran and to shipping strain. He said the U.S. military has destroyed the “Iranian nuclear program,” and that “in some ways, we have won decisively.” He also said the White House is working toward a deal to keep Iran from rebuilding that arsenal and toward a longer-term fix for disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Those are his claims as stated from the stage. The town hall release did not lay out independent verification, timelines for a deal, or the full back-and-forth on data centers or on the corruption allegations he was asked about.

What it did show is a vice president willing to take the hard domestic question on prices while arguing American force and diplomacy still have unfinished work abroad.

Vance has been sitting for wide-ranging interviews beyond politics alone, including a recent faith conversation that covered end times, the Antichrist, and AI, another window on how he weighs duty, belief, and public life.

A hold on the crown, not a surrender of it

Monroe is a small city. The subject was national. Vance refused the lazy assumption that a politician in his chair must already be running. He put four kids, a wife who prefers public service to politics, and a Senate race in Michigan ahead of the presidential calendar.

He did not retire. He did not announce. He said there is a chance he will not run, called himself a procrastinator on life-changing choices, and parked the decision until after the midterms.

In a city that runs on deadlines and drafts, waiting for the voters first is not indecision. It is the right order of business.