I don’t think the audience Vance’s message is supposed to resonate with cares about being fact-checked, or facts in general.

Trump doesn’t care if he’s being fact-checked because facts don’t matter to him, and his voters have the same outlook.

JD Vance actually said that it doesn’t matter because, “It’s how it feels.”

This mirrors almost exactly what the Alex Jones staff said during depositions. It didn’t matter if they had facts. What mattered is that the alternative felt true and they would report on that.

Kellyanne Conway, senior member of the 2016 Trump admin, wanted people to look into Trump’s heart for the truth:

You can’t give him the benefit of the doubt on this and he’s telling you what was in his heart, you always want to go with what’s come out of his mouth rather than look at what’s in his heart