Nia-Malika Henderson, Columnist

JD Vance Is Flip-Flopping His Way Out of Favor

March 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM UTC

Nia-Malika Henderson is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former senior political reporter for CNN and the Washington Post, she has covered politics and campaigns for almost two decades.

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There are few issues that Vice President JD Vance hasn’t been on every side of.

At one point, the people Vance wanted to impress were coastal elites who reveled in having an anti-Trumper who hailed from and could explain Trump country. This was his best-selling-author-and-CNN-commentator era.