Vance takes bat­tle­ground role as Trump opens midterm push in red states

Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance is head­ing into com­pet­i­tive races this week as Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump begins his fall cam­paign push in Okla­homa and Alaba­ma, two reli­ably Repub­li­can states with­out mar­quee con­tests expect­ed to deter­mine con­trol of Con­gress.
The split screen comes as Vance has emerged as one of the administration’s most promi­nent cam­paign sur­ro­gates and as polling shows the vice pres­i­dent remains sig­nif­i­cant­ly less unpop­u­lar nation­al­ly than Trump.

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