Marco Rubio received a prolonged standing ovation when Donald Trump name-checked him during the State of the Union address. But contrary to the secretary of state’s reputation as a jack of all administrative trades, this time, it was JD Vance whom Trump saddled with a job.

“Tonight, I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great Vice President JD Vance,” the president said following a prolonged riff on the network of largely Somali fraudsters in Minnesota. “This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation, and we are working on it like ...

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