The war in Iran‘s first few months belonged to Marco Rubio. The secretary of state seemed to be everywhere at once: blanketing the airwaves, leading press conferences, and leaning over President Donald Trump’s shoulder to whisper in his ear. Vice President JD Vance had been relegated to the bench — seated alongside the equally sidelined Tulsi Gabbard — while Trump and Rubio ran the war from Mar-a-Lago.A few months later, their roles have reversed. Vance has led negotiations for a memorandum of understanding with the speaker of the Iranian Parliament. And in the hours since the news broke, he’s barnstormed the media landscape to sell it to the public (and also to sell his book), joining the ladies at The View, the partisans on Gutfeld!, and the suits at CNN, NBC News, and the like. Vance is now the face of the war. Rubio, meanwhile, is suddenly invisible.One stop of Vance’s stood out — The Megyn Kelly Show, where the host and the audience have loathed the war since the first shot was fired. Here, for once, no one pushed back. And Vance, opposed to the war all along, trained his fire not on the actual arguments of pro-war conservatives — that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a moral and strategic catastrophe and that walking away now would eviscerate American credibility on the world stage — but on a parade of straw men.