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Vice President Vance defended his jab about Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen’s weight after the price of a $20 burrito sparked a GOP debate over affordability. In an interview with Salem News Channel’s Hugh Hewitt, Vance doubled down on his joke directed at Thiessen as part of an ongoing online conversation...
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Vice President Vance defended his jab about Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen’s weight after the price of a $20 burrito sparked a GOP debate over affordability. In an interview with Salem News Channel’s Hugh Hewitt, Vance doubled down on his joke directed at Thiessen as part of an ongoing online conversation...
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Vice President JD Vance refuses to apologize to columnist Marc Thiessen, and said: ‘I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with being a little spicy from time to time’
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AIPROPX has consolidated 2 reports from 2 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Vance on joke about columnist's weight: 'I feel pretty good about that.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — US and UK.
The earliest report in this entry came from The Independent (Aug 7, 2026, 16:19 UTC); the most recent came from The Hill (Aug 7, 2026, 19:47 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 1 named entity is referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “good about that vice president”.
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