JD Vance mocks Washington Post scoop on his ‘anti-woke ideology’: ‘They got me’

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In the wake of attempts by some in the media to portray vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance as extreme, conservatives on social media insisted that the Washington Post's worry that the Republican is an "anti-woke" warrior could actually be a massive endorsement of the lawmaker.

The Post's headline on Friday read, "Leaked memo shows J.D. Vance’s anti-woke ideology on foreign affairs." Vance himself joked about it on X, writing, "They got me."

The paper's National Security reporter John Hudson authored a piece detailing how Sen. Vance would move to block U.S. State Department nominees from being confirmed if they were shown to be proponents of radical left ideology. The piece seemed to galvanize conservative support for Vance, at least on X.

"The Washington Post didn't have to sell J.D. Vance to me like this, because I already liked him before they got these leaked memos showing how truly based he is," conservative journalist Ian Miles Cheong remarked in an X post about the new article.

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Hudson’s article described how, as a senator, Vance became "known in the most powerful offices of the State Department as the single biggest obstacle to confirming career ambassadors in the Senate."

The reporter explained how Vance would go about holding up these diplomats in their