Ben Shapiro says Vance’s appearance on Rogan puts him in a worse spot for 2028

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Ben Shapiro on Thursday slammed Vice President JD Vance’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast this week, saying the likely frontrunner for the 2028 GOP presidential nomination “did not sound very conservative.”

The vice president sat down with Rogan for a podcast interview on Wednesday, as the U.S. and Iran resumed strikes following the dissolution of a peace deal that Vance himself helped negotiate. Vance and Rogan discussed the vice president’s role in overseeing the Iran negotiations, his belief that the Trump administration “screwed up” its communications on the Epstein files, and the rise of socialism on the Left.

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