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Vance’s New Neighbors Rage as VP Brings Chaos to Horse Country

EXCLUSIVE: Furious residents are telling the vice president to “go back” to D.C. and “STAY THERE” after his Secret Service entourage was spotted rolling into town.

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JD Vance’s future neighbors have expressed their horror at his imminent arrival in their genteel town, with locals angered by road closures and Secret Service helicopters buzzing overhead.

PunchUp reported Friday that the vice president, 41, and his wife, Usha, 40, are looking to lease Wolver Hill—an $8.5 million, 423-acre horse farming estate on the northern edge of Middleburg, Virginia—as a country bolthole for their growing family. The couple’s fourth child, a boy, is due this month.

The Vance clan hasn’t even moved in yet, but some of the people of Middleburg—a town of barely 700 that’s packed with multimillion-dollar homes and is renowned as the country’s “horse and hunt capital”—are already annoyed.

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