JD Vance Takes a Hard Stance on Drugs. What Does His Adviser's Past Mean for His Campaign?

On Wednesday, a WIRED exclusive revealed that one of JD Vance’s financial policy advisers has posted a lot on Reddit about illicit substances. Given Vance’s hard stance on drugs, WIRED’s Tim Marchman and Makena Kelly join Leah to discuss why it matters that a member of his staff seems to have been using them. Leah Feiger is @ LeahFeiger .

Makena Kelly is @ kellymakena . Tim Marchman is @ timmarchman . Write to us at politicslab@WIRED.

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I'm Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at WIRED. In January, a Reddit user posted a video under the name PsychoticMammal. It showed JD Vance in a Senate hearing talking .