Democrats keep mocking JD Vance with the false viral story about him having sex with a couch, and the latest jibe has branded the Republican vice presidential nominee a “couch commando.”
In July, a rumor spread online that alleged the Republican nominee for Vice President said he had sex with a couch in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy. But this story has been widely debunked by Newsweek and multiple other outlets—the pages referenced in the original post (179-181) were actually about Vance’s first few days at Ohio State University.
Despite this, Democrats including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Jason Crow, for Colorado’s 6th congressional district, referenced the fake story at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Thursday.
Crow spoke about his time in the military as a paratrooper who carried out more than 100 missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying these taught him what “really makes America strong and secure.”
He said: “You see, it’s not tough talk, it’s not chest-thumping. Because, in war, talk is cheap. And trust me, I know a couch commando when I see one.”
The crowd erupted into laughter at the quip, before Crow went on to argue that “real strength and security comes from our people and our allies.”
The anti-Vance jibe comes amid attacks on his Democratic opposite number Tim Walz, claiming that Kamala Harris’ running mate abandoned his National Guard unit just before it was deployed to the Iraq War in 2005.
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Similarly, Warren slid her couch gag into her speech while discussing serious issues, and contrasting the behaviors of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
She spoke about the 2008 financial crash, saying Harris was “protecting families as California’s attorney general” while Trump was “scamming students at Trump University and trying to make money off people losing their homes.
Warren said: “Kamala Harris stepped up. She enforced the law, she fought the giant banks, and she delivered billions of dollars of help for families. And that is the difference between a criminal and a prosecutor.”
She later jibed: “Trust Donald Trump and JD Vance to look out for your family? Shoot, I wouldn’t trust them to move my couch.” This also triggered an eruption of cheering, clapping and laughing from the crowd.
Newsweek has contacted Donald Trump’s team via email for a response to Warren’s comments about him.
This is certainly not the first time the Democrats have jumped on the couch joke bandwagon.
The day Harris revealed Tim Walz would be her running mate, in Philadelphia, Walz told the crowd: I got to tell you, I can’t wait to debate the guy (Vance). That is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up.”
He acknowledged the joke when the audience laughed at him, adding: “You see what I did there?”
It comes after years of the Democrats criticizing Donald Trump and other Republicans for spreading what they call misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., responded to criticism for this, from conservative legal scholar Jonathan Turley, who posted on X: “We are not even in the postconvention period and our leading candidates are already ‘in the mud rolling around’ with trolls.”
Moskowitz responded: “For (two) years we had to hear that Joe Biden was an international super-criminal mastermind from Despicable Me 3. You will listen to the couch story.”
Newsweek has contacted Vance’s team and the Democratic campaign via email for comment.
