Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Sunday who he believes the next GOP presidential candidate will be when the 2028 elections begin.

Republicans have become the “party of the working-class, middle-class voter,” Romney said, according to the report, thanks to the success of President-elect Donald Trump.

That’s why Romney thinks the next presidential candidate will be Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, whom Romney states in the piece as being “smart” and “well-spoken.”

Romney made the comments on CNN’s State of the Union while discussing the state of the Democratic Party, decrying the party’s image as being that of “college professors and woke scolds,” according to a report.

Romney said the Democrats will have a tough time recovering because they’ve “lost their base.”

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While Romney has suggested Vance as being the next Republican presidential candidate, a longtime Trump ally, Steve Bannon, has floated an unlikely choice: Trump.

“The viceroy Mike Davis tells me since it doesn’t actually say consecutive that, I don’t know, maybe we do it again in ’28? Are you guys down for that? Trump ’28?” Bannon said.