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White claimed, falsely, that educated women are likelier to divorce their husbands.

"Democratic officeholders are much likelier to do what voters want than Republican officeholders," he writes, noting that GOP-controlled state governments "routinely ignore voter preferences" but Democratic majorities "work much harder to do what voters want."

Adults struggling with very low food security — the most severe form of food hardship — were likelier to report tapping into their savings and expensive forms of debt than those reporting less severe food hardship.

Perhaps, but looking at the reporting from the New York Times and Politico — and adding my own experience observing Vance — I'd say the likelier explanation is that Vance thinks whining is a political strategy.

By going viral, they made it likelier an already-unhinged and jealous Trump would hear about it, and react by vetoing his campaign staff's wish that he would shut up and sit in a closet.