JD Vance mocks Kamala Harris in front of Air Force Two

Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance strode up to Kamala Harris’s official plane on the tarmac in Wisconsin and attacked her for refusing to take questions from journalists.

J.D. Vance speaks at NMC-Wollard Inc. / Wollard International in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Picture: Getty Images via AFP.

Republican Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance caused a stir on the campaign trail on Wednesday (Thursday AEST) in Wisconsin, walking up to Kamala Harris’s official plane on the tarmac in Eau Claire to mock her failure to give an interview since becoming the Democratic party presidential nominee.

As campaigning for the White House began in earnest after Ms Harris picked Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate a day earlier, the Harris and Vance found themselves in the same state, and their planes parked in proximity at the same airport.

“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,” Ohio Senator Vance told a group of reporters who were waiting for the vice president.

JD Vance got the hardest pic in front of Kamala Harris’ plane 🔥 pic.twitter.com/unF9Zewa2f

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“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”.

Republicans have increasingly attacked the vice president for refusing to give an official interview or answer any questions publicly since she in effect became the Democratic party’s nominee after President Joe Biden abandoned his re-election campaign on July 21, following the president’s shocking debate performance against Donald Trump a month earlier.

“I’d love her to just answer what she wants to do and also explain why every single position she 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 tsar, yet she’s opened up the American southern border,” a smiling Vance, accompanied by his own security detail, said.

“This is a person who has to answer questions from the media and it’s disgraceful that she runs from you guys, and it’s also insulting to the American people.”

It was a rare social media win for the aspiring Republican Vice President, who since Mr Trump picked him as his running mate last month has been dogged by his pat comments, including about “childless cat ladies” running the US were, which potentially alienate large swathes of US voters.

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“Hopefully it's going to be my plane in a few months. I also thought you guys may get lonely, because the VP doesn't answer questions from reporters” pic.twitter.com/cjxnVoFy6j

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The tarmac stunt comes amid an increasingly personal and nasty contest between Vance and his opponent Governor Walz, a 60 year old former high school teacher Republicans are seeking to cast as a far-left radical based on his legislative record in strongly Democrat Minnesota.

At his second campaign rally with Ms Harris Walz once again dubbed Vance and Republican leader Donald Trump as “creepy and weird as hell”, returning to a line of attack that has become popular among Democrats.

“Donald Trump is not for you or your family. And Trump’s running mate shares those same dangerous and backward beliefs,” Walz said, having earlier accused Vance, a Yale graduate and wealthy investor, of being remote from the concerns of the midwestern states both parties need to win to claim victory in November.

At his first rally with Ms Harris in Philadelphia the previous night, Governor Walz brought up and obscene joke about Vance that has no basis in fact, likely cementing their political enmity.

“I can’t wait to debate the guy — that is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up,” he said before a crowd of around 14,000 people.

Senator Vance at his duelling Wisconsin rally in Wisconsin took aim at Governor Walz’s military record, accusing him of ‘stolen valour’ by focusing on a Republican accusation that he left the national guard, in which Walz served for 24 years, to avoid being deployed to Iraq.

“When the United States of America asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it. I did what they asked me to do, and I did it honourably and I’m very proud of that service. When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him,” Vance said.