Alexandra Marquez is a politics reporter for NBC News.
After years of condemning former President Donald Trump for spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories, Democrats are now poking fun at his running mate using a false, vulgar rumor. The rumor, first posted on X last month, involves a fake passage about a sex act and a couch supposedly in Sen. JD Vance's 2016 book, 'Hillbilly Elegy.
' On July 26, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent around a news release blasting Vance. The opening sentence read, 'House Republicans are couching their public praise of Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee with private criticism.' Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who at the time was considered to be on the short list to be Harris' running mate, leaned into the joke twice in the following days.
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