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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Darlene Superville and Julie Carr Smyth

VP Vance's global travels are a mix of diplomacy, dealmaking, soft power and family time

Vance - (KENNY HOLSTON/The New York Times)

When JD Vance was running for vice president, he walked across an airport tarmac in Wisconsin one August day when his campaign travels happened to intersect those of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and approached Air Force Two. Besides wanting to take a poke at Republican Donald Trump's rival for avoiding the press, Vance said, "I just wanted to check out my future plane.”

It's an aircraft he now knows well.

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