Vance had attended Ohio State before joining the Marines on his upwardly mobile journey from the rust belt to the Vice Presidency. But as he picked up the trophy, the base fell to the floor, and the golden top was caught in the nick of time by the team’s running back. It felt like a sign. Could Vance fumble America’s biggest prize?
The US public is not seeing a lot of Vance. This may seem strange to British readers, as he has just given an interview to the British publication UnHerd about the “real cultural affinity” between America and the UK. But while he attends White House meetings with dignitaries and pops up from time to time on Fox News, Trump is not obliging him with much of a domestic profile.
The ambitious Vance is taking the opposite course: shamelessly shilling for his boss. But he is equally disposable. Trump, who doesn’t “do” abroad unless he has to, has been sending Vance here, there and everywhere, far from Washington. Fancying a third term for himself, the 47th President disapproves of the way some right-wing influencers have taken to calling his young sidekick “48”.
From there, Vance will head to India to meet Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister. His wife Usha will receive a warm welcome as the first Hindu American to serve as Second Lady. There will be some useful discussions of trade deals, but much of the visit will be “cultural” in purpose. Sightseeing, in other words.
“I do not presume to understand current politics,” Colonel Susannah Meyers wrote in a blistering email to all base personnel, “but what I do know is the concerns of the US administration discussed by Vice President Vance are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base.”
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Where Vance does appear frequently is on social media, where he usually adopts the most slavish pro-Trump positions. This week he has been jousting with critics on X about throwing an unfortunate immigrant, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, out of America and into El Salvador’s Centre for Terrorism Confinement mass jail, despite an order from the US Supreme Court to “facilitate” his return.
The Yale law graduate should feel ashamed that a Reagan-appointed appeal court judge has ruled that the government cannot “stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order”, no matter how unsavoury their character.
“Tariffs are a tax on consumers, and I’m not a fan of jacking up taxes on American consumers,” Cruz told Fox News.
Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Centre for International Reporting
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