Calmes: Who's the vice-president elect? Elon Musk or JD Vance?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Vance will play his T.B.D. part in an administration that seems hellbent on exacerbating climate change with a full-on embrace of fossil fuels.
57% : As in his first term, Trump will get to fill whatever vacancies Biden leaves behind.
56% : "For the megabillionaire (and mega Trump donor), whose fortune owes much to his federal auto and aerospace contracts over the years, the joined-at-the-hip comradery with Trump -- at Mar-a-Lago, day-tripping in Washington, courtside in Madison Square Garden and then in Texas for a SpaceX rocket launch on Tuesday -- is already good for business.
51% : "He'd be worthless" but for government subsidies, Trump sniped in 2022, before the two formed their mutually beneficial bond only months ago.
39% : When Trump tapped 40-year-old Vance for veep, the Ohioan was described by many Republicans as the future of a MAGA-fied party and country.
33% : The future veep was finally spotted on Wednesday, not beside Trump but back on Capitol Hill, ducking in and out of offices.
29% : That provoked intraparty grousing this week, even from Trump, when Vance's absence in the closely divided body helped Senate Democrats, who still run the joint until January, to push through the confirmations of some of President Biden's final nominees to federal judgeships.
29% : That suggests both that Trump will indeed fire Christopher Wray, his first-term pick who subsequently enraged him by, among other things, approving the successful search of Mar-a-Lago for classified material in 2022, and that Vance may be carving a niche for himself as Trump's retribution deputy.
24% : And the federal largesse he enjoys isn't likely to be threatened by the spending cuts that Trump has promised: Welfare of the corporate kind is rarely on Republicans' chopping block, but certainly not now, given that Trump has put Musk in charge of a Department of Government Efficiency to identify targets to slash.

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