The last thing JD Vance probably wants to be associated with right now is a couch. But for some reason, he’s still talking about it. [Video]

Sen. JD Vance of Ohio has had a rough start to his 2024 run.

For one, a joke that Vance may once have had intercourse with a couch has been going viral on social media platforms from X to TikTok.

It all started on July 15 when an X user, who later spoke to Business Insider, posted a joke about Vance and a couch.

To be clear, the pages of Vance’s bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” don’t describe such a sex act. The Associated Press even tried to debunk the claim — but ended up taking the article down, saying the fact-check didn’t go through its “standard editing process.”

So, one might wager that the last word that Vance might want to say out loud, let alone at a rally, would be “couch.”

Not so. At a Tuesday event in Nevada, the senator talked about his wife, Usha Vance.

“I’ve been the beneficiary, I have to say, of a number of strong …