This Is the Week J.D. Vance Became Vice President

The Communion author better hope the reception of this Iran deal improves.

June 19, 20265:45 AM

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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a very special Friday Federal Holiday edition that makes a great reading companion to your steak-and-sauerkraut breakfast.

The United States and Iran have agreed at last on a framework for a deal to end the war, a tremendous success for Trump if it works and a total failure for J.D. Vance if it doesn’t. We also check in on some of this week’s primary results—in which a prominent Trump endorsee lost—and consider Trump’s gleaming gunk pool on the National Mall.