For those of us who have followed the vice president, his actions, and his statements very closely as related to Jews and Israel since his inauguration, the moment was infuriating.

Republican Jewish Coalition Chairman Norm Coleman sat in a closed room with JD Vance, looked the Jewish right in the eye, and made the bid unmistakable from the start: “I wish we could re-endorse you,” he told Buckley Carlson’s former employer.