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Vance Strains to Sell a Softer Trump

Picture this: It’s the biggest moment of your professional life — performed before an audience of millions — and you have to defend your boss. He is colossally needy and notoriously thin skinned. He stoked a violent mob against your predecessor. Oh, and he’s providing a live play-by-play critique of your performance on his own…

Senator JD Vance said during the debate that former President Donald J. Trump had “governed in a bipartisan way.”Credit…Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Picture this: It’s the biggest moment of your professional life — performed before an audience of millions — and you have to defend your boss.

He is colossally needy and notoriously thin skinned. He stoked a violent mob against your predecessor. Oh, and he’s providing a live play-by-play critique of your performance on his own personal social-media network. Your job? Soften his edges, while stroking his ego.

This is the awkward task America watched JD Vance try to pull off Tuesday night…

It was, to put it mildly, a difficult exercise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/us/politics/vance-walz-debate-analysis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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