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Vice President JD Vance faced a wave of backlash Friday after making a personal joke about an Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate during a campaign rally in his home state.

Speaking in Lima, Ohio, at an event supporting Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, Vance called Democrat Amy Acton, the former Ohio health director, “a crazy person” before taking a more personal shot.

“Now, I did promise Amy that I would meet her at a bar later,” Vance told the crowd. “I understand that she’s into that sort of thing. So I’m gonna try to get to know her a little bit better.”...

Vice President JD Vance has a signature campaign-trail move, but some on the right suspect it’s more performance than personality.

Vance has made a habit of swearing in speeches and then making a show of apologizing for it, and a prominent conservative commentator told Politico for a Thursday report that the routine looks staged.

"There's something deeper about American politics where people think you can fake authenticity by cursing," said the commentator, who was granted anonymity to speak freely about the vice president....

A simmering rivalry between two Republican heavyweights eyeing the White House spilled into public view this week, with one making it personal.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called Vice President JD Vance "insecure" in a phone interview with Politico on Saturday, responding to Vance's claim days earlier that the Texas senator was already running for president.

"In my experience, people engage in political bomb-throwing when they're feeling insecure," Cruz said. "So he's welcome to make whatever comments he likes. I'm going to keep focusing on the midterms and helping us win on Election Day in the next 30 days."...

A conservative columnist predicted Republicans' expected midterm losses will fall hardest on Vice President JD Vance because of his closeness to President Donald Trump.

Timothy P. Carney, a columnist for The Washington Examiner and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, made the prediction in an episode of The New York Times' "The Opinions" podcast released on Saturday, appearing alongside hosts Robert Siegel and E.J. Dionne Jr.

"I think the shellacking that all three of us expect Republicans to take, I think that's got to hurt JD Vance, because I think it has to highlight how closeness to Trump is a negative," Carney said....

New reporting that Vice President JD Vance was behind one of the stories that the White House used to ban Politico is sparking ridicule.

On Wednesday, Status reported that Vance was the "senior administration official" cited in a Politico article about an Iran peace deal. In a letter to Politico, the White House cited the article as one of six stories justifying Trump's media ban and wrote that the information in the article had "threatened national security."

When news came out that Vance was the White House's anonymous source, online commentators had their fun and took jabs at the vice president....

A CNN analysis keyed in on the latest bombshell revelation about a White House leaker to tear into President Donald Trump's media ban.

On Wednesday, former federal prosecutor and columnist Jeffrey Toobin spoke with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper about the hearing regarding Trump's media ban. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly was still expected to rule on a temporary restraining order sought by lawyers for CNN, MS NOW and Politico, who were kicked out of the White House by the ban.

Cooper brought up that the Department of Justice argued to keep the ban in place by citing national security concerns. Toobin said, "It's understandable why the White House is trying this, because the courts are at their most deferential to the executive branch when it comes to national security."...