{"id":101521,"date":"2026-09-07T10:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/vice-president-jd-vance-hosts-white-house-press-briefing-iran-midterms-2028\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:43:32","slug":"vice-president-jd-vance-hosts-white-house-press-briefing-iran-midterms-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/vice-president-jd-vance-hosts-white-house-press-briefing-iran-midterms-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President JD Vance Hosts White House Press Briefing: Iran, Midterms, 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Vice President JD Vance spoke to reporters in the White House briefing room on Thursday, in place of a press secretary, taking questions on data centers, foreign policy, the midterms, Senate leadership, his weight, and more.   He said the president told him: &#8220;Be careful. I want you to do well, but if you do too well, I might make you press secretary.&#8221;   &#8220;So I&#8217;ve got to struggle a little bit because I&#8217;m busy enough as it is. But I&#8217;m very much up here as the vice president of the United States,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/09\/03\/watch_live_vice_president_jd_vance_hosts_white_house_press_briefing_1_pm.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President JD Vance spoke to reporters in the White House briefing room on Thursday, in place of a press secretary, taking questions on data centers, foreign policy, the midterms, Senate leadership, his weight, and more. He said the president told him: &#8220;Be careful. I want you to do well, but if you do too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23753,15056,3303,1968,261,16780,2635,1912,22219,4597,1297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}