Vance comes into his own as Trump attack dog

Sen. J.D. Vance (R‑OH) is quick­ly find­ing his foot­ing as a top mes­sen­ger for for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s 2024 cam­paign.
Vance received high marks for his solo press con­fer­ence in Detroit and remarks to reporters as he approached Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Harris’s plane at the air­port in Eau Claire, Wis­con­sin. 
“Extreme­ly sol­id extem­po­ra­ne­ous polit­i­cal IQ here,” Repub­li­can strate­gist Josh Holmes, a for­mer advis­er to Sen­ate Minor­i­ty Leader Mitch McConnell (R‑KY), wrote on the social media web­site X. “Vance has bar­rel of the bat swings going here.”
Nation­al Review edi­tor Rich Lowry described Vance as “​​inar­guably a good spokesman for the tick­et, and he’s shown it the last cou­ple of days.”
“Piv­ot and attack, rinse and repeat,” Lowry con­tin­ued (empha­sis in the orig­i­nal). “That’s been the basic approach.”
“I wasn’t a fan of J.D. being the pick, but I like what I’ve seen over the past week,” a Repub­li­can oper­a­tive told the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er. 
Vice pres­i­den­tial run­ning mates are fre­quent­ly deployed as attack dogs on the cam­paign trail, allow­ing the top of the tick­et to remain pres­i­den­tial and above the fray. R …