Vance takes battleground role as Trump opens midterm push in red states

Published September 29, 2026 7:00am ET



Vice President JD Vance is heading into competitive races this week as President Donald Trump begins his fall campaign push in Oklahoma and Alabama, two reliably Republican states without marquee contests expected to determine control of Congress.

The split screen comes as Vance has emerged as one of the administration’s most prominent campaign surrogates and as polling shows the vice president remains significantly less unpopular nationally than Trump.

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