It turns out, there isn’t a single thing JD Vance isn’t willing to politicize.
During a town hall in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Thursday, Vance made a weirdly hostile joke after a woman in the audience fell down, letting out a shriek of terror.
Vance stood up and walked over to see what had happened, while security rushed to her. “We OK?” Vance asked . There was a moment of silence and awkward laughter from the crowd.
“Kamala Harris built this platform behind us, that’s what happened,” Vance joked, and the audience started to laugh and clap.
“We doing OK, ma’am, we good?” Vance asked again, before returning to his seat on stage.
While awkwardly joking about bleachers was just one weird moment of divisiveness, Vance also politicized the federal response to Hurricane Helene, claiming that Donald Trump would not abandon the people of western North Carolina.
When speaking about his favorite topic, illegal immigration, Vance tried to connect it back to what was happening in North Carolina by falsely claiming that programs for immigrants come at the expense of North Carolina residents.