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Fortune
Beth Greenfield

Diet Mountain Dew for the win? Why the favorite soda of both JD Vance and Tim Walz may not be a health drink.

Photo illustration of JD Vance and Tim Walz cut outs holding bottles of Diet Mountain Dew on a green background. (Credit: Photo Illustration by Alexandra Scimecca/Fortune; Original Photos Courtesy of PepsiCo; Andrew Harnik—Getty Images; Alex Wong—Getty Images)

Tim Walz is Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential running mate and JD Vance is Donald Trump’s, and never the twain shall meet. Right? Wrong. At least when it comes to their (and Lana Del Rey’s?) reported soft drink of choice: Diet Mountain Dew.

Last month, Vance told a joke that fell flat about drinking the bubbly beverage (and was later ribbed over it by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear), and toasted with it at a public appearance with Newsmax, reportedly declaring, “This is the good stuff here. High-caffeine, low-calorie.”

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