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Resolved: J.D. Vance would have been better off being passed over for vice president and remaining in the Senate.
I’ve spent the past week kicking that around and have decided that it’s incorrect, although not so flagrantly incorrect that it qualifies as a hot take. A case can be made that Sen. Vance would be more likely to become president in 2028 than Vice President Vance is.
It’s not complicated. If Donald Trump’s term spirals into disaster, his vice president will inherit every bit of political baggage that the president amasses. That’s a lotta suitcases potentially.
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