In today's Inside Washington, Holly Baxter takes a look at how Trump's war in Iran has pushed his vice president into a corner.
Whatever is JD Vance to do?
The usually self-assured veep has managed to find himself in a uniquely tough spot of late.
It turns out that when you spend years building your entire political brand as the rustic, plain-spoken Appalachian voice of America First anti-interventionism, it becomes slightly awkward when your boss starts a war with Iran.
In 2023, Vance wrote a now-very-inconvenient op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, stating that a big part of why he's so happy to be Trump's right-hand man is "because I know he won't recklessly send Americans to fight overseas."
He acknowledged that not starting a failed campaign in the Middle East is "a low bar" for a president, but added that what's so amazing and special about The Donald is that he's "started no wars despite enormous pressure from his own party and even members of his own administration."
Well, here we are.
Unsurprisingly, that op-ed was very recently resurrected and passed around by political commentators keen to question Vance's true stance on the Iran war as it bled into a third week.
But it was the resignation of Joe Kent, Trump's counter-terrorism adviser, whose decision really put Vance in a tough spot.
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