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Joan E Greve in Washington

Sofa so bad for JD Vance as Trump’s VP pick faces swirling speculation

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Senator JD Vance, seen speaking to reporters onboard a private jet at the Phoenix airport this week, has got off to an awkward start as Republicans’ vice-presidential nominee. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

It all started with a tweet about a couch. 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 fucking an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181).”

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