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JD Vance's 'painfully awkward' knee pat to his wife sends onlookers wild: 'Cry for help'
JD Vance’s Knee Tap Is Not the Story. The Performance Is.The StageThe reporting begins where political coverage too often ends: with a clip, a smirk, and a pile-on. JD Vance appeared on his wife Usha Vance’s podcast for a Father’s Day segment of Storytime with the Second Lady, read Winnie the Pooh, talked about family life, and patted her knee. The internet did what it does: it turned a staged family-friendly appearance into a spectacle of marital awkwardness.That is the shallow layer. The deeper story is that one of the country’s most powerful offices is being wrapped in domestic branding…
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