The vice-president has endured his most humiliating \u2013 and damaging \u2013 week as his boss\u2019s fall guy. How much more can Maga\u2019s great hope take? <\/p>\n
For a would-be president, JD Vance has an unfortunate habit of getting into fights he cannot win. Three losing battles in the past week \u2013 with Iranian negotiators<\/a>, Hungarian voters and Pope Leo<\/a> \u2013 brought censure, humiliation and mockery raining down on his head. None were of Vance\u2019s choosing. All were fought vicariously on Donald Trump\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n The vice-president is paying a high price for sycophantic loyalty to his boss. His poll ratings are plunging. His Maga succession hopes falter. He suffers by association \u2013 although his own inflammatory statements and misjudgments often make matters worse. Yet amid growing doubts about Trump\u2019s mental health and fitness to govern<\/a>, Vance remains the White House\u2019s next-in-line.<\/p>\n Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The vice-president has endured his most humiliating \u2013 and damaging \u2013 week as his boss\u2019s fall guy. How much more can Maga\u2019s great hope take? For a would-be president, JD Vance has an unfortunate habit of getting into fights he cannot win. Three losing battles in the past week \u2013 with Iranian negotiators, Hungarian voters … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}