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D.C. Insider Reveals Vance Slipping in Trumpworld
April 14, 2026
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Jacquelyn Martin / via REUTERSA D.C. insider says JD Vance has lost his standing as a frontrunner to the MAGA throne after a series of high-stakes flubs.The 41-year-old vice president is no longer the clear successor to President Donald Trump after he failed to land a peace deal with Iran, doomed the re-election campaign of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and suffered dismal approval ratings, Edward Luce wrote for the Financial Times on Tuesday.Luce, the FT’s U.S.
national editor and a veteran D.C. journalist, noted that Vance is “no longer Trump’s obvious successor” as the tides appear to be turning in favor of his rival for the presidency: Secretary of State Marco Rubio.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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