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A photograph appearing to show Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance dressed in drag has gone viral on social media.
The unconfirmed image appears to show the Ohio Senator dressed in women’s clothes and wearing a blonde wig.
The image is reported to have been taken in 2012 by one of Vance’s classmates while he was studying at Yale Law School, according to The Daily Beast. It was subsequently sent to the podcast host Matt Bernstein, who posted it on X, formerly Twitter.
“New: I have obtained a photo of JD Vance in drag while in yale law school,” Bernstein wrote on Sunday. The image was viewed over nine million times by Monday morning.
A spokesperson for Vance did not deny the authenticity of the image when approached by The Daily Beast and did not offer any further comments.
Newsweek has contacted Vance’s campaign for comment outside normal working hours.
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