JD Vance quickly marched up to Air Force 2, Kamala Harris‘ plan, plans to give political reporters a show when he confronted the vice president uninvited on Wednesday. His power play dreams, like most of his chaotic veep run, was immediately thwarted when he realized Harris was not present.
“I just wanted to check on my future plan,” Vance told campaign reporters gathered on the Wisconsin tarmac.
He didn’t get a chance to meet Harris but said he “wanted to say hello to the vice president and ask her why she refuses to answer questions.”
It is unclear what questions Vance was referring to, as Harris has repeatedly pressed for Donald Trump to attend a debate on September 10 that he already agreed to when he ran against the President Joe Biden.
Vance told a Philadelphia rally on Tuesday that he would “absolutely” want to debate Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltzif given the chance.
About 40 minutes after the Ohio senator stormed over to confront his invisible opponent, the Harris campaign released a video set to a popular TikTok sound that seems intended to make fun of him.
“Now I want to sit back and relax and enjoy my evening, when all of a sudden I hear this outrageous, sparkling voice,” says the voiceover before panning from Harris and Walz in front of their plane to the Trump-Vance plane. of.
Harris and Vance are hosting dueling campaign stops this week, as he follows her all over the country in a not at all strange way.
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