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J.D. Vance

What's on J.D. Vance's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6
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the El-Sayed offensive 30% · newTrump's 2028 anointing 22% · newthe war on fraud 13% the messy Iran talks 11% everything else 24%
#1
Vance calls El-Sayed 'crazy' and a 'terrible' senator-in-waiting

Mocked as 'Peter Thiel's boy,' the VP answered by declaring the Michigan Democrat unfit for the Senate — and the quote ran nearly everywhere.

Vance calls El-Sayed ‘crazy’ after being mocked as ‘Peter Thiel’s boy’

The Hill · 2026-08-10
our translation

he'd rather relitigate whether a michigan doctor is crazy than relitigate who wrote the checks. answering the thiel line at all is the tell that it landed.

new — Nine outlets ran the same quotevery sure · 4 sources
#2
Trump hints at Vance in '28, and the shadow race starts moving
new — Trump hinted at an heir againpretty sure · 3 sources
#3
The fraud tally hits $230 billion — and he points at migrant communities
Fraud figure restated at $230 billionpretty sure · 2 sources
#4
'We don't trust Iran, and we will verify'
Coverage thinning to two outletspretty sure · 2 sources
tuesday, august 11
Keep the El-Sayed fight going — the clip is traveling(reported)
Say 'trust but verify' about Iran at least once(reported)
Let the 2028 question hang without ever answering it(safe bet)
Repeat the $230 billion fraud number before anyone checks it(reported)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

JD Vance calls El-Sayed ‘crazy,’ says he’d be a ‘terrible’ senator

news.google.com · 2026-08-11

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