Vance Downplays Watergate and Compares Himself to Nixon

The vice president said that the scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency would be “like a 12-hour news story” if it happened today and that the “deep state” had taken down Nixon.Vice President JD Vance in Maine last month. At an event on Thursday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, he compared himself to the former president: “Young senator, vice president, writes some best-selling books, is hated by the media.”