Meet the Candidate (and Pitcher) America Can Agree Upon

EPISODE 130: The other J.D.

It’s late July, and the American news cycle is drowning in surreal and hectic stories of plans gone wrong.

Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt; Kamala Harris replaced a malfunctioning Joe Biden; and now the focus has turned to J.D. Vance, who got the call to be Trump’s vice president.

But there is one story from this month — a local sports story, which went national — that I wanted to make sure you heard today.

Because the man at the center of it, it turns out, is a very different kind of politician. Even though he also happens to be named J.D.

And over Independence Day weekend, J.D. Scholten — a 44-year-old state legislator in Iowa — got an emergency call, out of nowhere.

From a professional baseball team he hadn’t played for in 17 years.

What happened next is the story of why America needs J.D. Scholten, too.

DKN/YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:

Anti-monopolistically,

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