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EPISODE · Mar 2, 2026 · 20 MIN

J.D. Vance is positioning himself to be the next President

from Hope For America with Heather Delaney Reese

J.D. Vance took the stage at a Wisconsin manufacturing plant to deliver a speech built around fear, fraud, and a deeply tone-deaf attempt to brand himself as the "coolest vice president in American history." Behind the performance lies a more urgent story: a visibly declining president who has all but disappeared from public view, a political machine scrambling to prepare its next figurehead, and a media landscape on the verge of consolidation that threatens the survival of independent journalism.The BreakdownVance's Wisconsin speech centered on the word "fraud" as a fear-based messaging tool while he awkwardly claimed to be cooler than Jefferson, Truman, Johnson, and RooseveltTrump has been largely absent from public view since his State of the Union address, with no press conferences, minimal social media activity, and only a staged photo op with no questions allowedA Reuters-Ipsos poll found 61% of Americans now say Trump has become erratic with age, including 30% of Republicans, while only 45% describe him as mentally sharpVance described Trump as having an "intense work pace," a claim that contradicts the visible evidence of a president who falls asleep in meetings and maintains an increasingly light schedulePeter Thiel, the billionaire who bankrolled Vance's political career, is positioning him as a proxy path to the Oval Office as Trump's decline acceleratesWarner Bros. Discovery declared Paramount's bid to acquire CNN a "superior proposal," meaning David Ellison and the Ellison family fortune could soon control both CBS and CNN under ownership aligned with TrumpWelcome to my brand new YouTube channel! If you found value, subscribe, like, and comment. I can use all the help I can get to spread this message further. My goal is to spread the word of what's happening to our country at the hands of our current administration.Subscribe to my Substack for all my daily posts: https://heatherdelaneyreese.substack.com/

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J.D. Vance took the stage at a Wisconsin manufacturing plant to deliver a speech built around fear, fraud, and a deeply tone-deaf attempt to brand himself as the "coolest vice president in American history." Behind the performance lies a more urgent story: a visibly declining president who has all but disappeared from public view, a political machine scrambling to prepare its next figurehead, and a media landscape on the verge of consolidation that threatens the survival of independent journa...

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