‘Loyal soldier’: A day on the trail with JD Vance, Trump’s ‘human Swiss Army Knife’

Marine. Yale graduate. Calls the Rust Belt home with his beautiful, growing, mixed-race family. On paper, Vice President JD Vance ticks all the boxes for what the next generation of politics could look like. 

But 2028 is a long way off. First, Republicans have to face the midterms, where the Trump administration’s record will be tested in a string of governors’ races and contests that could either salvage or eviscerate the party’s razor-thin congressional majorities.

For Vance, affectionately dubbed the “human Swiss Army Knife” by White House aides, that means hitting the road and hitting it hard to sell President Donald Trump’s agenda. 

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