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Meet JD Vance’s Jewish chief of staff, Jacob Reses
Reses is poised for an important role in the next administration, should Trump win, and a chance to put his ideas into action at the highest level of government.
Jacob Reses’ earliest political activity, as a teenager, involved campaigning to raise local taxes and denouncing the right-wing commentator Ann Coulter as “spewing hate.”
It was hardly an obvious launching pad for a career in Republican politics, but this month, Reses, 33, quietly became one of the most influential conservatives in the United States when his boss, J.D. Vance, was selected as Donald Trump’s running mate.
Reses, Vance’s chief of staff since he entered the Senate 19 months ago, is notable for another reason: In a campaign season characterized by rising Christian nationalism among Republicans, Reses Ijacs Jewish.
Usha Vance, the potential second lady who is Hindu and Indian-American, has drawn attention from Republicans, journalists and analysts because of the ways her identities appear to be at odds with the increasingly nativist, Christian nationalist bent of the Republican Party.
But Reses, a New Jersey native whose grandfather escaped the Holocaust and who became a Republican during his first year at Princeton University — after interning for Hillary Clinton — has almost entirely escaped notice
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