He’s the type of independent that:
-Declared Biden mentally fit post-debate and bought in fully on “cheap fakes”
-wondered where people were seeing word salad from Kamala
-stood up for a clueless Schumer over cheeseburgers
-stood up for Karen Bass because she “had only been in office a few weeks”
-made fun of the addiction problems of Vance’s mother
-repeatedly cracks on how women present themselves or if they’ve had a skin condition along the way (republican women only, of course)
Aside from those tells, he’s “fiercely independent”.