Witch boy from the mountain come

The candidate tries to put some feeling into it

[It looks at first like an ample-sized hotel bedroom that has just been made up, with blank, cream-colored walls, lamps with gold metal shafts, a writing desk, a minibar, a couple of functional if undistinguished armchairs, and a big, simple bed. A door toward the back apparently leads to a bathroom; another, to a hallway. JD VANCE, wearing a Yale sweat…