Vice President hopes American Republicans remove incompetent state leaders (6)

I believe the answer is:

harris

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'vice president' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'hopes american republicans remove incompetent state leaders' is the wordplay.
'leaders' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'hopes american republicans remove incompetent state' is 'HARRIS'.

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(Other definitions for harris that I've seen before include "Isle known for tweed" , "Hebridean isle associated with tweed" , "Lewis with ------, Hebridean island" , "location off Scottish mainland" , "Joel Chandler --, creator of Brer Rabbit" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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