Vice presidential candidate JD Vance made an awkward and chilling appearance at a Georgia doughnut shop on Thursday.
Vance, 40, stopped by Holt’s Sweet Shop in Valdosta to order some candy for his campaign team ahead of a planned speech in the battleground state.
But the seemingly unplanned visit quickly turned awkward, as the woman working behind the counter asked not to appear on camera.
The Ohio senator then pretended to tell the press to remove her from his videos, before introducing himself to the employee.
“I’m JD Vance, running for vice president,” he said with a smile on his face.
Vice presidential candidate JD Vance, 40, made an awkward appearance at Holt’s Sweet Shop in Valdosta, Georgia, on Thursday.
He introduced himself to an employee, who simply replied, “It’s okay.”
The woman, in turn, simply replied: “It’s okay.”
Vance then proceeded to ask the woman and another employee on screen a few questions about the business, such as how long they have been working there.
Both employees gave her brief answers as the woman tried to prepare her order for a “random assortment” of two dozen doughnuts.
“There’s a lot of frosting, some sprinkles and some cinnamon rolls here,” Vance notes.
After receiving several boxes of pastries, Vance and his entourage met with deputies outside the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office, where they briefed him on illegal drug and firearms issues in the community. WCTV reports.
From there, Vance traveled to his rally, where he attacked Democrats on issues of illegal immigration and border security.
Vance ended up ordering a ‘random assortment’ of two dozen donuts.
He was seen carrying boxes of cakes as he left the candy store on his way to a demonstration.
He accused Vice President Kamala Harris of fueling the country’s drug problems and taking a laissez-faire approach to border control.
“As soon as Kamala Harris is removed from office, we will no longer be open to illegal immigrants and Mexican drug cartels,” Vance told the crowd.
“That is our solemn promise to the American people, and we keep it seriously.”
Vance’s speech came as his running mate, former President Donald Trump, was campaigning at the Arizona border.
The two are crisscrossing the country making immigration issues a top priority of their campaign while blaming the influx of illegal immigration on Harris, whom they both have called a “failed border czar” who is lax on crime.
Republicans are apparently hoping their message will resonate with voters in the key states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, where recent polls suggest Harris and her vice presidential nominee, Tim Walz, have closed in on Trump’s lead.
Vance and former President Donald Trump are crisscrossing the country making immigration issues a top priority of their campaigns.
But his campaign efforts come amid a heated Democratic National Convention, where Walz attacked his Republican opponents Wednesday night.
He talked about growing up in a small town in Nebraska and joked that none of the 24 members of his class went to Yale, a clear dig at his opponent, Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance.
“I’ll tell you what: When you grow up in a small town like that, you learn to take care of other people,” Walz said in his impassioned speech.
‘That family down the street may not think like you, may not pray like you, may not love like you, but they are neighbors.’
He went on to say that “some people just don’t understand what it takes to be a good neighbor” and said that as a professor, his students elected student body president could teach Donald Trump “a lot.”
“Leaders don’t spend their days calling people names and blaming others. Leaders do the work,” Walz said. “So I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to move on with these guys, so go ahead and say it with me, we’re not going back.”
He called his agenda “absolutely bizarre” but also warned that “it is dangerous.”
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to accept the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday night.
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