Democrats insist they are learning from their mistakes — and are ready to attack the Donald Trump-led 2024 ticket full-bore, and hit below the belt if they feel like it. “Shaking off the stink of … ‘when they go low, we go high,’” is how one Democratic operative put it, …
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A little more than a week after Donald Trump was nearly assassinated at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Ohio state Sen. George Lang was warming up the crowd ahead of a speech from Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio),when he started idly vamping about how the country might need …
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Vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance would like to be having a brat summer, but he is instead facing accusations of pushin’ the cushions of an unfortunate sofa. Social media has been inundated with jokes and memes suggesting Vance once pleasured himself between two couch cushions. What goes on between a …
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Kamala Harris has not given birth to children — and is therefore unfit to be president of the United States of America — appears to be the first line of attack the GOP has come up with since the presidential race was upended this weekend when President Joe Biden dropped …
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This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published by Rolling Stone with permission. On Oct. 10, 2017, a fresh-faced J.D. Vance was direct and pragmatic about America’s energy future when asked whether the U.S. “should protect the coal and steel industries.” The then-33-year-old author of Hillbilly Elegy …
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In his big debut at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance pitched the convention crowd on the faux-populist schtick he’s been honing since leaving his venture capital job in Silicon Valley to run for Senate in the Rust Belt. “Wall Street barons crashed the …
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This article is published in partnership with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. In 2008, I published a book with a straightforward premise: the upcoming era of American politics would be defined by a competition between the left and …
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MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump’s “big tent” convention includes the ringleader of the right’s most notorious circus. Rolling Stone ran into Clay Clark, the organizer of the conspiratorial, Christian nationalist road show known as ReAwaken America Tour, eating lunch near the security perimeter for the RNC convention. Clark — whose roving …
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In 2022, then-Senate candidate J.D. Vance sat down with Aimee Terese — a pundit and podcaster little known to the American public, but prominent in the sloppy trenches of hyper-online digital reactionaries — and removed his filter. “I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally,” Vance said in the …
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It was barely half an hour after shots rang out at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania, with the candidate apparently among the wounded, that Elon Musk took to X, formerly Twitter, and formally backed him for president. “I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery,” Musk …
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