U.S. Vice President JD Vance this month said he had not yet made a determination on whether he would run for president in 2028, telling EWTN News host Raymond Arroyo that he would listen to God when ultimately deciding what to do.
Vance, who is widely considered to be a frontrunner for the 2028 Republican nomination, told Arroyo on the latter's "Arroyo Grande" podcast on Oct. 21 that he was not thinking intensively about the prospect of a presidential race amid the contentious 2026 midterms.
"As soon as the midterms are over … I'm going to have to think seriously about it," Vance said. He noted that he and his wife have four small children "and that's a consideration."
Asked by Arroyo if he felt God calling him to mount a presidential run, he responded: "I feel God calling me to do as good of a job as I can."
"I feel God calling me to try to promote the common good and the job that I'm doing right now," he said. "And I think that when I actually sit down with my wife and with my pastor and with just my own internal deliberation — I think at that point I'll either hear God telling me to do something or to not do something."
"I haven't felt God telling me I've got to do one thing or another," he said, though he admitted: "Maybe that'll change."
The vice president and Arroyo spoke in a wide-ranging interview that focused on politics, family, faith, and other issues. Vance said during the exchange that his faith "influences how [he thinks] about public policy."
"I think that what my faith calls me to do is to be more charitable towards people," he said. "It forces me to ask questions: 'How can we raise up the least among us? How do we ensure that people have good access to jobs, even if it isn't always the perfect thing for a corporate bottom line?'
"It also tells me to protect the weak and the vulnerable — of course, I think starting with the unborn, but a lot of other people on top of that," he continued.
"So I do think that while I'm an imperfect practitioner of my faith, I think the very best version of myself is that which listens to that voice in my head that I think ultimately comes from God."
Asked by Arroyo about his "greatest regret," Vance said: "Not having kids sooner."
Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance were married in 2014 and welcomed their first child in 2017. "I had been dating Usha for three weeks, I knew I wanted to marry her, I knew I wanted to have kids with her, and we should have just started sooner," he said.
"I always tell young couples, you always think you're going to check all these boxes and finances are going to be perfect, and then you're going to have kids," he said. "Nobody looks back on their life and says, 'I had two kids too early.'"
