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www.desitalk.com – that’s all you need to know 18 NATIONAL AFFAIRS June 19, 2026 JD Vance Says He’ll Discuss 2028 Presidential Run With Wife Usha After Midterms V ice President JDVance, in an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning,” said he and his wife, Usha Vance, will discuss a 2028 presidential run after this year’s midterm elections. “Usha and I will absolutely sit down and talk about what comes next for our family,” Vance told CBS. “The way I make decisions is I try not to make them until I absolutely must.” He said he expects President Donald Trump to be “very supportive” of his eventual decision. “I have no doubt that the president of the United States is going to be very supportive of anything that I ultimately decide to do,” Vance said. “But we really just haven’t talked about what that thing will be.” A person close to Vance who spoke on the condition of anonymity to com- ment on private discussions has cited the expected birth of the vice president’s fourth child in late July as a reason he has not yet made a decision on a 2028 run, The Post reported in March. Vance, 41, represented Ohio in the Senate for two years before becoming vice president. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a Yale Law School graduate who gained prominence for his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.” Once a critic of military interventions overseas, Vance has become a staunch defender of the war in Iran and other Trump policies. Vance is the most high-profile of the potential 2028 contenders in the Trump administration, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Vance and Rubio have recently appeared in theWhite House briefing room, further fueling 2028 speculation as they raised their profiles. While Trump has stoked a rivalry between the two, he has also sug- gested that they could be running mates. In his interview with CBS, Vance said he doesn’t initiate conversations about his political future with Trump. “I never bring it up. But sure, the president brings it up a lot, sometimes publicly, sometimes privately,” Vance said. “The president’s a political animal. He loves this stuff. He’s very fascinated by it.” Vance wouldn’t say whether Trump is pushing him to seek the party’s nomina- tion but noted that the president “kind of talks about it, like, ‘What’s gonna hap- pen,’ you know? ‘How do we make sure that we’re successful?What does that mean for the future?’” “So, we talk about it, but not in any great detail,” Vance said. -TheWashington Post By Mariana Alfaro PHOTO:REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR/FILE PHOTO Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance is accompanied by his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance as he arrives for Day 1 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 15, 2024. N ASA astronaut Anil Menon is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station Tuesday, July 14, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft. He will be accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Du- brov and Anna Kikina, a June 15 press release from NASA said. The three will spend about eight months on ISS be- fore returning to Earth in spring 2027. NASA announced Menon would be available for limited media interviews beginning at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, June 22, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station as part of Expeditions 74/75. The virtual interviews will take place from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, and will stream live on the agency’s YouTube channel. At the ISS for those 8 months, Menon is expected to conduct scientific investigations and technology demon- strations “to help humans prepare for future exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, and to provide ben- efits on Earth,” NASA said. Among the experiments planned during his mission, he will participate in studies to better understand astro- naut vein structure, blood flow, and blood composition in microgravity. He also will test producing intravenous fluids using the space station’s potable water. The Soyuz MS-29 mission will be his first spaceflight after he was se- lected as part of NASA’s 2021 astronaut class. Menon, who is a native of Min- neapolis, is an emergency medicine physician, mechanical engineer, and colonel in the United States Space Force. He has also served as an expe- dition flight surgeon aboard the space station, which is now more than 25 years old. To learn more about International Space Station research, operations, and its crews, visit. By a StaffWriter NASA Astronaut Anil Menon To Launch To Space Station July 14 NASA astronaut and International Space Station Expedition 74/75 flight engineer Anil Menon poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. PHOTO:NASA/JAMES BLAIR