{"id":95818,"date":"2026-06-21T13:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/republican-strategist-brad-todd-vances-move-to-go-against-israel-is-not-politically-smart\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T13:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:42:43","slug":"republican-strategist-brad-todd-vances-move-to-go-against-israel-is-not-politically-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/republican-strategist-brad-todd-vances-move-to-go-against-israel-is-not-politically-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Strategist Brad Todd: Vance&#8217;s Move To Go Against Israel Is Not Politically Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Republican strategist and CNN commentator Brad Todd reacts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/18\/vance_to_israel_wake_up.html\">Vice President J.D. Vance&#8217;s criticism of Israel at a press conference on Thursday<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LAURA COATES, CNN: Politico is reporting that Vance has kind of embraced his role of chief defender of the agreement. I mean, he&#8217;s on a book tour, so he has to be out there for a variety of reasons, but it&#8217;s quite a book tour. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re thinking really now, but yes, now.  And the war is very unpopular among Americans, period. Republicans are not thrilled with the MOU, but there was one White House ally who supports the deal, who said that it is fascinating to watch Vance&#8217;s biggest enemies in the GOP unwittingly inoculate him from that liability by branding him as responsible for the peace deal. So the idea of this being a political strategy, of him being in the forefront, do you buy that?  BRAD TODD: I think first off, I thought he had a tremendous opportunity when he was put in charge of the negotiations to fix one of his problems. He&#8217;s not seen as hawkish enough by a lot of Republicans. He thought the war was bad, the deal was good.  Most Republican primary supporters thought the war was good and the deal was bad. So I think for someone who might want to run one day, this is a pretty precarious position. I thought he&#8217;d use it the opposite.  I thought he would use the negotiations to shore up his hawkish side. And I think on Israel, you know, I&#8217;ve worked on this issue professionally with groups who try to support the U.S.-Israel relationship, I can tell you Republicans really support Israel a lot, rank and file Republicans do. It&#8217;s the Holy Land. They&#8217;re our partner. It&#8217;s the most democratic place in the Middle East. It&#8217;s the key to stopping a lot of our enemies. I don&#8217;t know that this move to go against Israel is politically smart for somebody who wants to run a Republican.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/19\/republican_consultant_brad_todd_vances_move_to_go_against_israel_is_not_politically_smart.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican strategist and CNN commentator Brad Todd reacts to Vice President J.D. Vance&#8217;s criticism of Israel at a press conference on Thursday. LAURA COATES, CNN: Politico is reporting that Vance has kind of embraced his role of chief defender of the agreement. I mean, he&#8217;s on a book tour, so he has to be out [&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":[137,12155,293,163,28,7229,27,17062,14069,27687],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95818"}],"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=95818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}