Lewis Goodall
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And from where things were about a week ago, there was, I think, for the first time in many years, more people saying,
kind of siding with a yes vote, a yes to independence, a yes to Scottish independence, maybe people who are looking at Westminster, maybe people who are sort of thinking about reform coming in south of the border.
I don't know what that does now to the shape of Scottish politics, but it can't be particularly healthy for the SNP.
You might have missed over the incredibly sunny bank holiday, the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi Gabbard was Trump's national security advisor.
She was famously very anti-war.
Her whole position as a former Democrat had been against the Iraq war.
And when she was pulled into the Trump cabinet, many people thought that he'd sort of warmed to her because of her anti-war stance.
Obviously,
her position became very, very difficult once Trump decided to arbitrarily take the country, if not the world, to war with Iran.
And she resigned, citing her husband's grave illness of bone cancer that she said she wanted to spend more time at his side, which is 100% understandable.
But
This has created a slightly weird dynamic now between people who are left in the cabinet and are anti-war, because frankly, there aren't many of them.
In fact, all fingers are pointing to J.D.
Vance and saying, you're on your own now.
You're virtually the only person left around Trump that told him, according to your own accounts, according to the public accounts, not to go to war.
So where does J.D.
Vance sit now?
Does he still run a chance at being VP?
Does he sit this whole thing out?