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...JD Vance, the Republican senator from Ohio, posted on X, formerly Twitter, the day after the vote: “For pro lifers, last night was a gut punch. No sugar coating it....
...Go deeper: Vance represents a growing class of Republicans who have unabashedly embraced Trump — and are in many ways beholden to him....
...JD Vance in Ohio is one example of that, but he seems to be in an unexpectedly tight race. Susan Glasser Well, that’s right....
...But Democrats say other political forces are working in their favour, chief among them the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn Roe vs Wade, the legal decision that has enshrined the constitutional...
...Biden’s comments came a day after Trump’s enduring grip on the Republican party was confirmed by the results of the Senate primary in Ohio, where JD Vance, the candidate backed by the former president, prevailed...
...November’s election will also provide a test of how much Democratic voters were motivated to turn out by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs Wade....
...Along with Walker in Georgia, the party’s controversial candidates for the Senate include political novices Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician running in Pennsylvania, and JD Vance, the venture capitalist...
...The fine writer and less fine Senate candidate JD Vance has mocked the “childless left”....
...But he first expressed his disagreement with Wade in a 1985 memo, writes Stafania Palma in this profile of the 72-year-old....
...She declines to criticise Vance’s conversion to Trumpism. “I never turn on my students,” she says....
...Tim Harford FT columnist Escapism doesn’t get purer than a fantasy trilogy, but Jack Vance’s modern classic Lyonesse is a long way from Tolkien and his hobbits: the plot is fast-paced, the action cruel...
...rana.foroohar@ft.com Letter in response to this column: An unlikely combination that may help us move on / From Prof Robert H Wade, London School of Economics, UK...
...But New Hampshire is also filled with people like Affliction’s protagonist, Wade Whitehouse, the police officer cum snowplough operator cum handyman struggling with three jobs, trailer-park housing, single...
...She has read the relatively scant academic literature about this class but, like other gifted writers on the WWC, such as the French novelist Edouard Louis and the American venture capitalist JD Vance, Williams...
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