Tucker Carlson made a startling prediction about who will replace Donald Trump

Tucker Carlson is one of the most influential figures on the Right.

Carlson already picked out a favorite for 2028.

And Tucker Carlson made a startling prediction about who will replace Donald Trump.

It’s never too early for the media and official Washington to start focusing on the next election.

That’s especially true of the Presidency since the Constitution prevents Trump from running for another term.

Both parties usually see wide-open Presidential primaries in a race with no incumbent President.

That will certainly be the case on the Democrat side.

But Tucker Carlson thinks the 2028 GOP primary is going to be the J.D. Vance invitational.

Carlson told host Vince Coglianese – who is taking over for Dan Bongino now that Bongino is Deputy Director of the FBI – that Vance is the only Republican he sees capable of carrying on Donald Trump’s legacy.

“I think people want to leave a legacy, all of us do, and great men especially do. And the only person in the entire Republican Party from my position who’s capable of carrying on the Trump legacy and expanding it, making it what it should fully be, is JD Vance,” Carlson, stated. “I think his loyalty is without question and his service to Trump has been profound. So I’m assuming that was just like a phrase that you feel you have to use.”

Coglianese speculated that one reason Trump didn’t immediately endorse Vance when asked that question recently was that Trump didn’t want to render himself a lame duck when he still had so much of his agenda he needed to fight for.

Carlson agreed with that take and remarked that Vance was the most powerful Vice President in recent memory, which made it obvious to Carlson that Vance would be the GOP nominee in 2028.

“That’s exactly right and there’s a lot that will happen between now and then … there’s no one else [to carry on Trump’s legacy],” Carlson added. “And I think, already, I mean, it’s a tough gig for any vice president, this one included … But he has been a powerful partner for Trump. I don’t see any other, at this point, as of today, any other conceivable option. I think JD Vance will be the nominee.”

Vance showed off his political talents in a speech at the American Dynamism Summit.

In his remarks, Vance made the intellectual case for Trump’s America First tariff policy that Vance argued was necessary to break the addiction of American businesses to cheap foreign labor.

Vance contended that a dependency on foreign labor harmed American businesses as well as workers telling the crowd that “it’s a crutch that inhibits innovation. I might even say that it’s a drug that too many American firms got addicted to. Now, if you can make a product more cheaply, it’s far too easy to do that rather than to innovate. And whether we were offshoring factories to cheap labor economies or importing cheap labor through our immigration system, cheap labor became the drug of Western economies.”

Countries that depended on foreign labor fell behind on growth.

“And I’d say that if you look at nearly every country—from Canada to the UK—that imported large amounts of cheap labor, you’ve seen productivity stagnate. And I don’t think that’s a total happenstance. I think that the connection is very direct,” Vance added.

Vance knows in the business world it is grow or die.

The media mocked Trump for picking Vance as his running mate.

But Vance proved he is a one-man wrecking ball capable of destroying left-wing narratives.

Vance is also one of the Republicans that authentically believes in the MAGA agenda.

And that combination, Tucker Carlson believes, puts J.D. Vance far ahead of any other potential 2028 GOP contenders.