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Vance wanted military helicopter to fly his son to a golf lesson (www.independent.co.uk)

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JD Vance sought last week to use a military helicopter to ferry himself and his son across Washington for a golf lesson, one of a number of allegedly unusual travel requests that has left the Republican’s security detail “fed up,” MS Now reports.

The alleged travel plans aboard Marine Two were ultimately canceled due to weather, but Secret Service agents nonetheless discussed it among themselves unhappily, according to the outlet.

Past vice presidents have had Secret Service agents drive their children to activities, rather than use military hardware, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars per hour to operate.

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[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

It is very much relevant. He was polling worse than Carter in his first term. Didn't help much, did it? He won even bigger the second time.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Obviously it did, as he lost the 2020 election, unless we're ignoring cause and effect.

The problem isn't Donald in this scenario. The problem is that people's lives didn't improve in a material way following the 2020 election (and in fact grew significantly worse), which unfortunately laid the groundwork for a second Donald presidency.

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