India, June 23 -- Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson described JD Vance as a personal friend and political ally during a recent podcast appearance, adding that the vice president has been placed in an "impossible situation" by Donald Trump. Carlson noted that the vice president has no real policymaking authority and has to serve under a president who has "completely betrayed his own voters."

"And this president has completely betrayed his own voters. And so that leaves the vice president, who was the hope of many of those voters, including me, in a horrible situation. And every day I feel sorry for JD Vance. Every day I say a prayer for him. Always consider him a friend," Vance said on the podcast, a video of which is surfacing on X...