Within hours of
Donald Trump announcing the Ohio senator JD Vance as his running mate in the presidential race, a rather lurid accusation cropped up on social media.
The user of a since-deleted X account
wrote last month, “can’t say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to ****ing an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181).”
The couch debacle only underscored Vance’s overall dismal introduction to the country after his somewhat forgettable
speech at the Republican national convention last month [and he] enters the final 100-day stretch of the election season as one of the most unpopular running mates in recent history. According to a
CNN analysis, Vance is the least liked non-incumbent vice-presidential nominee since 1980.
I read a bit more about him in the Times Magazine and it seems he's no more a Hillbilly than Fillybilly - In the book, Vance leaned into his family roots in eastern Kentucky, even though he was raised in an Ohio city near Cincinnati...
