Vance: “I figured I’d come by and get a good look at the plane because hopefully it’s going to be [mine] in a few months. I also thought you guys might get lonely because the VP doesn’t answer questions and hasn’t for 17 days.”
By Amy Sikma and Steven Nelson | The New York Post
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance stunned reporters Wednesday by attempting to confront Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz on the tarmac when their planes arrived at similar times here.
“I figured I’d come by and one just get a good look at the plane because hopefully it’s going to be my plane in a few months, but I also thought you guys might get lonely because the vice president doesn’t answer questions from reporters and hasn’t for 17 days,” Vance told traveling campaign reporters.
Vance, who spoke to the press after approaching Air Force Two, asked: “Have they given you guys an explanation for why she won’t take questions from reporters?”
The Ohio senator went on: “I’d love her to just answer what she wants to do and also explain why every single position she has has changed. She pretends to be a tough on crime prosecutor and yet here she is wanting to defund the police. She’s the border czar, yet she’s opened up the American southern border.”
Vance concluded, “This is a person who has to answer questions from the media and it’s disgraceful that she runs for you guys, and it’s also insulting to the American people.”
Harris spoke with the press for four minutes Tuesday afternoon in one such off-the-record engagement aboard her vice presidential jet.
The vice president and Walz, the Minnesota governor whom Harris announced Tuesday as her running mate, seemed to have peeled out of the Eau Claire airport shortly before Vance approached Air Force Two.
Harris and Walz posed for pictures with Girl Scouts members upon their arrival before motorcading to a nearby rally venue. ##