Campaigning in Pennsylvania last September, JD Vance seemed to strike at an unlikely political foe: the besieged president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who’d spent most of the previous two ...

Though the extraordinary White House meeting put tensions between Zelenskiy and Trump on public display, it also showcased Vance’s increasing role as an attack dog of sorts for his boss ...

“It just shows how personality is critical to policy, and how one bad meeting, you know, can be so potentially damning in history,” Bartlett said. “There are plenty that will see Vance as ...