8 h. ago Conservatives overwhelmingly back JD Vance for president in 2028, according to poll

It may be early days but Vice President J.D. Vance is the clear frontrunner for the 2028 Republican nomination, according to a straw poll of conservatives published on Saturday.

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40 h. ago No matter how distasteful we find Trump and Vance over Europe, they speak a blunt truth | Simon Jenkins

The US has chosen the worst possible moment and the worst possible way to say it, but it is right to call for a realignmentIt’s tough being rightwing these days. You have to find something nice to say about Donald Trump. That is hard. He thinks Kyiv started the Ukraine war and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is a “dictator”. But what about JD Vance? The US vice-president thinks that Europe’s “threat from within”, which is putting “free speech in retreat”, is worse than any threat from Russia or China. These men are deranged. What more is there to say?The answer is quite a lot. John Stuart Mill warned that “he who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that”. We must try to understand the case they are making, whether we agree with it or not. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago 8 deeply weird things Donald Trump and Elon Musk did while you were sleeping

The Mirror has been reporting from CPAC, the biggest gathering of the MAGA faithful, in Washington DC. Yesterday saw speeches from Liz Truss and Nigel Farage - but the oddest appearances came from Vice President JD Vance and a chainsaw wielding Elon Musk

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57 h. ago JD Vance slams Europe for censorship as he issues final warning to Ukraine

Vice President J.D. Vance vows that he and Donald Trump will work to deescalate wars around the globe.

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59 h. ago JD Vance slams Europe for chilling speech as he issues final warning to Ukraine as Zelensky ties break

Vice President J.D. Vance vows that he and Donald Trump will work to deescalate wars around the globe.

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59 h. ago JD Vance warns US will only be friends with countries that share Donald Trump's values

US Vice President JD Vance branded his boss the "President of peace" - but warned European leaders they will only keep America's friendship if "we take our societies in the right direction"

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3 d. ago JD Vance warns Zelensky he will regret 'badmouthing' Trump and condemns his 'atrocious' response to peace talks

Vice President J.D. Vance on Wednesday warned the Ukrainian president against attacking President Donald Trump , saying that 'badmouthing' him in public would only backfire.

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3 d. ago Woman, 74, becomes first person to be arrested under abortion buffer zone law

Arrest comes days after US vice president JD Vance criticised Scotland’s buffer zones

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3 d. ago Elon Musk dubbed new Vice President as Fox viewers ask 'anyone seen JD Vance?' after Trump gushes

Donald Trump heaped praise on Elon Musk during a joint interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity at the former president's Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, on Wednesday

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4 d. ago Sadiq Khan ‘speaking his mind’ and rejects UK freedom of speech is under threat

US vice president JD Vance said that freedom of expression was ‘in retreat’ across Britain and wider Europe in a speech last week.

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4 d. ago Who is Trump eyeing to carry on the GOP crown? It’s not JD Vance

ANALYSIS: JD Vance may be the vice president — but that doesn’t mean he’ll be head of the Republican ticket in 2028. Who could the president be eyeing to be the MAGA standard-bearer in the next election cycle?

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5 d. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: European leaders spat out their dummies when the US Vice President delivered that brutally honest speech. I just hope Keir Starmer was listening...

The fallout from American Vice President JD Vance 's brutally honest speech in Munich continues to reverberate around Europe. Knee-jerk reaction has been entirely predictable.

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5 d. ago JD Vance tears into 'Orwellian' free speech criminalization as 60 Minutes airs absurd 'hate speech' segment

Vice President JD Vance continued his defense of free speech on Monday, sharing a clip of German prosecutors explaining their efforts to crack down on free speech in Germany.

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5 d. ago Night Agent star who played JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy condemns actors who get political

Gabriel Basso says actors should ‘shut the fuck up’ and that they have no authority to publicly bestow political viewsThe actor who portrayed JD Vance in the Oscar-nominated film Hillbilly Elegy before the latter man became the vice-president of the US has said his fellow thespians should “shut the fuck up” rather than express their political opinions.Gabriel Basso – now starring in the hit Netflix series The Night Agent – made those comments on a recent episode of the Great Company podcast, cutting a stark contrast with his director on Hillbelly Elegy, Ron Howard, who previously described himself as “surprised and concerned” from the campaign that ultimately left Vance a heartbeat away from the US presidency. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Elon Musk’s efficiency department pushes to access taxpayer data from IRS, says report

The Washington Post reports ‘Doge’ is requesting access to the system that contains the personal financial records of millions of AmericansWe have a little more on next week’s meeting between UK prime minister Keir Starmer and Donald Trump.PA reports that when asked about comments made by US vice-president JD Vance on free speech in the UK, the prime minister’s spokesman said:There’s going to be a wide range of issues that we’ll be working with the new US administration on.The prime minister looks forward to meeting president Trump shortly to discuss how we can deepen the special relationship across trade, investment and security. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago AfD leader blasts politicians for 'excluding millions of voters' who want migration tackled in heated TV debate as hard

Alice Weidel praised US Vice President JD Vance for his comments calling on Germany to drop its decades-long taboo of having the far right in government.

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5 d. ago JD Vance blasts 'crazy exchange' after CBS' Margaret Brennan tells Marco Rubio that Nazis weaponized free speech

Vice President JD Vance slammed CBS News' Margaret Brennan for what he called a 'crazy exchange' she had with Secretary of State Marco Rubio Sunday morning.

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