"JD Vance, it seems, is everywhere. Berating Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Eulogizing Charlie Kirk. Babysitting the Middle East peace accord. Profanely defending the aquatic obliteration of (possible) drug smugglers. He's loud, he's obnoxious and, in a very short time, he's broken unprecedented ground with his smash-face, turn-it-to-11 approach to the vice presidency. Unlike most White House understudies, who effectively disappear like a protected witness, Vance has become the highest-profile, most pugnacious politician in America who is not named Donald J. Trump."
"Kamala Harris made her own kind of history, as the first woman, first Black person and first Asian American to serve as vice president. As such, she entered office bearing great and vastly unrealistic expectations about her prominence and the public role she would play in the Biden administration. When Harris acted the way that vice presidents normally do subservient, self-effacing, careful never to poach the spotlight from the chief executive it was seen as a failing."
JD Vance has become omnipresent and confrontational, berating Volodymyr Zelenskyy, eulogizing Charlie Kirk, babysitting a Middle East peace accord and profanely defending the aquatic obliteration of possible drug smugglers. He is loud and obnoxious and has rapidly reshaped the vice presidency with a smash-face, turn-it-to-11 approach. Kamala Harris previously entered office as the first woman, first Black person and first Asian American vice president and faced unrealistic expectations about prominence and public role. When Harris acted in the traditionally subservient, self-effacing vice-presidential manner it was criticized. Experts note vice presidents are only as active as their presidents want them to be.
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