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...responds The Trump veepstakes are the biggest parlour game happening between Mar-a-Lago and the Manhattan courthouse these days, and I would put the three senators — Tim Scott, Marco Rubio and especially JD Vance...
...Edward Luce responds Rana, let me pick up on your assumption that we will not be getting a paranoid, unstable Trump who can’t work with anyone except those who agree with him....
...Peter Thiel’s $15mn was critical to JD Vance’s success in winning an Ohio Senate seat last year. Both Thiel and Vance are admirers of Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s self-styled illiberal prime minister....
...On the Senate side, the change has been personified by populist senator JD Vance of Ohio, who has been teaming up with Democrats on bills that would tighten regulation in areas such as rail safety and reshoring...
...Or the once thoughtful JD Vance, now Trumpian senator from Ohio, who told the New York Times: “Tucker is a giant . . . I assume he’ll land on his feet and continue to have a powerful voice....
...Rana Foroohar responds Ed, I am indeed following the Vance versus Ryan race and it won’t surprise you to know that I support Ryan....
...For sceptics, an obvious comparison is the case of John Edwards....
...Among the Trump-endorsed candidates who won, including JD Vance for an Ohio Senate seat, most distanced themselves from Trump’s more extreme stances after they won their party’s nomination....
...They’re going to be more likely to show up and vote,” said Edward Erikson, a progressive political consultant who specialises in combating the impact of big money in politics....
...EDWARD LUCE: Well, thank you....
...McConnell is upset with the quality of candidates that have won Republican Senate nominations; Thiel has funded two of them, Blake Masters in Arizona and JD Vance in Ohio....
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...A 1981 American newspaper profile described him as a hybrid of the media theorist Marshall McLuhan, the journalist and critic of consumerism Vance Packard, and Ray Kroc, the McDonald’s hamburger mogul....
...The bank lost out to Morgan Stanley last year in the $7bn bidding war for US investment manager Eaton Vance....
...Edward Spiro, a partner at Morvillo Abramowitz law firm, Mr Vance’s former firm, believes his ex-colleague will not be swayed by such concerns....
...Letitia James, New York state’s attorney-general, and Cy Vance Jnr, the Manhattan district attorney, would both still be able to file charges against Mr Trump....
...Edward Luce is on leave and will return in mid-July....
...The charges were laid out in a 15-count indictment unsealed in a Manhattan court yesterday, marking a decisive turn in an almost three-year investigation of Trump’s business by Cyrus Vance, the Manhattan...
...Brzezinski made mincemeat of the elite foreign policy establishment — personified by Cyrus Vance, who was Jimmy Carter’s patrician secretary of state when Brzezinski was his national security adviser....
...Edward Bonham Carter has stepped down from Jupiter Fund Management’s board to pursue a new role focusing on the company's stewardship and corporate responsibility efforts....
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