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Vance.
But at the end of the day, you know, if someone's the party's nominee, the alternative is going to be worse, right?
If he's running against AOC or Gavin, I mean, they'll probably be less hawkish than he is.
Even so, people, there's very little alternative to getting on on board.
But there certainly be disquiet because I think in some respects, J.D., I don't know whether he actually thinks this or whatever, express it.
But I imagine that he might think of himself a little bit as Trump is the John the Baptist ideologically with this more populist, non-interventionist approach that that Trump's kind of on on board with, but not always, as we've seen with with Iran.
And J.D.
is the pure version.
Right.
He's he's the ideological savior.
He's he's working the logic all the way to its its end point.
And there's got to be a lot of people who weren't weren't huge on Donald Trump to begin with, but have have warmed up to him, especially after this, who are going to not like the idea of of a J.D.
Vance nomination.
I thought the same thing you alluded to at the beginning of that clip.
This guy is the next Jesse Waters, right?
Just give him 10 or 15 years.
Yeah, the way it happened with Jesse was working for O'Reilly.
Following in his boss's model.
So I don't think it's just a statement in 1980 from Trump.
I mean, he's made a hawkish sounds about Iran across the decades.