Tim Walz Made a Couch Joke About J.D. Vance and Kamala Harris Struggled to Keep a Straight Face

Now even the Democratic vice presidential candidate is making jokes about J.D. Vance and couches.

During his first appearance as Kamala Harris' running mate at a rally in Philadelphia, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz delivered a speech that included some jabs at Donald Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance. "Like all the regular people I grew up with in the heartland, J.D. studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and then wrote a best seller trashing that community," said Walz, referring to Vance's 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

Shortly after mentioning the memoir, Walz made slyly referenced a viral claim that Vance wrote an explicit passage in the book about "fucking an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions."

"I gotta tell ya, I can't wait to debate the guy," he said to huge applause. "That is if he's willing to get off the couch and show up!" As he made the dig against Vance, who didn't have sex with a couch but has received many questions about having sex with a couch ever since a viral tweet claimed he did, Kamala Harris was visibly struggling to keep a straight face.

Many highlighted on social media that Harris looked like she was physically trying to hold back laughter during the moment. One user highlighted that the initial joke about Vance and couches "quite possibly changed the course of American history" after a VP pick made a direct reference to it.

When the joke about Vance first surfaced last month, shared by user @rickrudescalves, multiple outlets published a fact-check on the claim. One piece from the Associated Press, which has since been removed, was titled "No, J.D. Vance did not have sex with a couch." There is no such mention of furniture fornication in Hillbilly Elegy, but the claim has followed Vance ever since he was announced as Trump's VP pick.

Vance even tried to get in on the joke last month during a rally in Reno. "I would call my wife up here to speak but then I think I'd have to sleep on the couch tonight," he said, as if that isn't exactly what he wanted anyway.