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'Not interested': JD Vance's frantic 'sales pitch' flops as GOP midterm polls sour
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance at the Lake Lucerne Summit at the Buergenstock resort in Obbuergen, near Lucerne, Switzerland, Sunday, June 21, 2026. URS FLUEELER/Pool via REUTERS
The Plea Is the Strategy
Power Asking to Be Judged as a Bystander
JD Vance is not an opposition candidate begging voters for an opportunity to govern. He is the vice president, speaking for an administration that has held executive power while its party controlled Congress. Yet his request—“give us another chance” or “another couple of years”—recasts the people running the government as applicants still waiting to…
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