Vance says Ohio rumors come from locals. His ‘proof’ is from the internet. The Ohio senator likes to suggest that he has private knowledge of t

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/18/vance-says-ohio-rumors-come-locals-his-proof-is-internet/

The implication is that he is privy to nonpublic information that informs his views. You can see how this is useful: He can claim that he knows more than his interlocutor. But there’s no reason to think he does, in large part because the evidence he presents so often takes the form of unsubstantiated — and later debunked — rumors circulating on the internet.