Sid Rosenberg charmed Vance at White House meeting to mend fences with Jewish conservatives

WASHINGTON — Sid Rosenberg said that he “charmed” Vice President JD Vance at the White House Thursday to mend fences with Jewish conservatives, weeks after the radio host criticized the likely 2028 frontrunner for not being “strong enough on Israel.”Rosenberg said on X he “enjoyed” a nearly half-hour discussion with Vance and the “chance to get to know each other.” He also spent time with President Trump in the Oval Office.Later on 77 WABC’s “Cats & Cosby,” the radio host shared that the two “hit it off” and he expected “many, many more meetings about very substantial things in the very near future.”“I think I charmed him more,” Rosenberg joked.“I did most of the talking, and he spent most of the time laughing.”Before the meeting, the radio host told Politico he was planning on asking tough questions about Vance’s friendship with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and US aid for Israel.

Rosenberg also said that the vice president had requested the sitdown.“Right now, the general feeling is JD is going to be the nominee in 2028, and he’s got a couple of loose ends that he’s got to tie up to make this really work,” said a New York source tapped into the Jewish community’s concerns.“And probably number one on the list is the conservative Jewish vote.”The issues that give donors and other influential leaders pause are Vance’s comments indicating a separation between the US and Israel and his friendship with Carlson, this person added.“Sid would be a logical person to call in to try to help figure this out,” the source also said.Rosenberg has suggested that Vance may need to disavow Carlson in order to allay Jewish Republicans’ concerns, given the podcaster’s denunciations of the US-Israel alliance.Vance had spoken at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership summit in Las Vegas earlier this month, where Rosenberg was harshly critical of the vice president’s remarks.“My honest asses...