In the latest national survey conducted by Trump ally McLaughlin & Associates, Trump Jr. is a solid second behind Vice President JD Vance.

Vance has 27% of GOP support, Trump Jr. 21% in the survey shared with Secrets on Thursday.

The two, however, are close friends and it was Trump Jr. who helped convince President Donald Trump to pick Vance as his running mate.

So expectations in Republican circles are that Trump Jr. would not challenge Vance in the 2028 GOP presidential primaries.

And that would open the door to an intriguing pairing: Vance-Trump.

“It’s still very early and there’s a lot of tough policy work that needs to be done to grow the economy and secure America, but a ticket of Vice President Vance and Donald Trump Jr. would be very formidable,” pollster John McLaughlin told Secrets.

Trump Jr. is extremely popular among the MAGA crowd and has an especially strong core of support among younger voters due to his nonstop campaigning on campuses for his father in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

McLaughlin’s survey showed that only Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), with 8% support, would be a threat to either Don Jr. or Vance.

Donald Trump is barred from running for a third term.

While rare over America’s 248 years, a son following his father into the White House did happen recently when President George W. Bush was elected eight years after his father, George H.W. Bush, left office.

Both Bushes had elected political experience, which used to be a standard requirement for office before Trump ran and won in 2016. Trump Jr. also hasn’t been elected to any office. He is a successful Trump Inc. executive, co-founded a book publishing firm, Winning Team Publishing, and founded a global outdoors magazine, Field Ethos.

On the Democratic side, McLaughlin found that only former Vice President Kamala Harris has wide support among Democrats, at 33%. Her closest potential challenger is former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at 9%.

While Harris has talked like a 2028 candidate, she performed poorly as Trump’s challenger last year and didn’t even make it through the first Iowa caucus when she initially ran for president in 2019.

In his new survey, support for Trump was 50%, and 56% approve of his policies, even those who don’t like the president.

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Should Trump continue to win approval, a Republican ticket would have good luck in 2028.

McLaughlin said that could happen. “As our nation’s 47th commander in chief’s policies succeed his job approval and favorable ratings should increase further,” he said.