Over the weekend, we got the latest periodic story citing anonymous sources as claiming Vice President J.D. Vance won’t run for president in 2028. While I question the report, I do think there is a logic in him waiting another four years.

To be clear, I believe Vance will ultimately run for many of the same reasons that Dan McLaughlin gave when another report of this kind cropped up a few months ago. The bottom line is if you have the inside track to win one of the major party presidential nominations, and in a two-party system winning a nomination gives you close to a 50-50 chance of becoming president, you take your chances. Waiting another four years introduces a lot more uncertainty into the equation.

The latest article by the Daily Mail, which a Vance spokesperson denied, isn’t........

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