JD Vance is cooking his own goose
I don’t want to be too optimistic, but this week’s “Standing Room Only” is about why JD Vance has really damaged this 2028 presidential chances by defending Donald Trump’s war in Iran, however reluctantly.
It’s not just that he’s a two-faced phony. He wanted to campaign as an “alpha male,” but he comes across as so emasculated.
Debasing themselves for Trump
My guest this week is Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns & Money, an OG political blog. In this clip, we talk about how Vance and State Secretary Marco Rubio are being pitted against each other for Trump’s 2028 endorsement. We discuss whether the Iran war is going to make it worse for them.
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