JD Vance’s bad week gets worse
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Is the GOP presidential nomination wide open? This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here . Hi readers, happy Friday! What a week, right? My colleague Caitlin Dewey has spent the last two days unpacking some of the midterm results and their implications for you, and there will be lots more of that to come. But before we head into the weekend, I’m going to take a quick second to look ahead — to 2028. Specifically, to the future of the Republican Party, which just found itself on the wrong end of what may be the biggest electoral landslide since 1976 . It’s a comprehensive, crushing repudiation — and one that has already cast the future of MAGA’s heir apparent, Vice President JD Vance, into doubt. Miller’s ascension is a foreboding sign: Through one and a half Trump terms, he’s been the driving force behind many of Trump’s cruelest and least popular policies — some of the same policies, particularly around immigration, that helped Republicans lose the midterms in a blowout.
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Vice President JD Vance and Stephen Miller in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on August 5, 2026. | Alex Wong/Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here . Hi readers, happy Friday! What a week, right? My colleague Caitlin Dewey has spent the last two days unpacking some of the midterm results and their implications for you, and there will be lots more of that to come. But before we head into the weekend, I’m going to take a quick second to look ahead — to 2028. Specifically, to the future of the Republican Party, which just found itself on the wrong end of what may be the biggest electoral landslide since 1976 . It’s a comprehensive, crushing repudiation — and one that has already cast the future of MAGA’s heir apparent, Vice President JD Vance, into doubt. Vance has long looked like the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in 2028, with the clearest cl
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