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J.D. Vance is 'playing a dangerous game' by trying to overshadow Trump: analyst

Vance's increasingly high profile three months after taking office as Donald Trump's second-in-command may end up blowing up on him if he continues to either expand on the president's pronouncements or, worse, correct them and cause rifts within the administration. Donald Trump was president for four years; Mr. Vance’s prior political experience consists of two years in the Senate. "If you didn’t already know the identities of Messrs. Trump and Vance, you could watch their Feb. 28 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and wonder who was the principal and who the deputy. That, he claimed is part and parcel of a "dangerous game" the vice president is playing where it appears that Vance is already looking forward to taking Trump's place as the leader of the party. In his Feb. 14 address to European leaders in Munich, Mr. Vance made an argument so audacious that you had to wonder why it had been delegated to him," Swaim then pointed to Vance's controversial comments in the Signlagate scandal where he told participants in the chat, "I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now."

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