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JD Vance declines to endorse Israeli PM Netanyahu for reelection

Vance made the remarks to Mark Halperin's 2WAY program after Trump posted his endorsement; polls project Netanyahu's coalition will lose its majority, nine days before voting.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVice President JD Vance won't endorse Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection, even though President Trump did, nine days before Israelis vote. Lola Cruz is on it.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLola, what's the mood out there?

  3. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentHank, I'm outside a coffee cart this morning, and everybody here has read the quote.

  4. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentVance told Mark Halperin on the 2WAY program, and I'm quoting, "I'm not getting involved in Israeli elections." He also said he's not anti-endorsing and not pro-endorsing.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's a lot of nots.

  6. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentIt is. Sir, you've been standing here since five. What do you make of it?

  7. Osgood TilbrookI make of it that in April he campaigned in Budapest next to Viktor Orban, and Orban got swept out after sixteen years.

  8. Osgood TilbrookIf I'd done that, I'd stay out of foreign elections too.

  9. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThat's what I'd call a hard-won lesson, Hank. I've seen men learn less from worse.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHis office hasn't answered questions about the contradiction yet.

  11. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThen the policy is new, and it starts in Budapest.

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  2. Trump Makes Endorsement Ahead Of Israeli Elections · The Daily Wire
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  5. Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israel's election · Al Jazeera
  6. Academic conferences draw Israeli expats home just days before… · The Times of Israel
  7. JD Vance declines to endorse Israeli PM Netanyahu for reelection (this story)

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