Vice presidential hopeful JD Vance had another awkward human interaction on Thursday, when he spoke at a firefighter union event in Boston where not everyone was thrilled to see him.
After taking the stage at the International Association of Fire Fighters conference, Vance received boos from the crowd, to which he responded, “We got some—it sounds like we got some fans and some haters. That’s okay.”
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At another point during the speech, Vance was booed when he claimed the Trump-Vance ticket to be the “most pro-worker Republican ticket in history.” (Earlier this month, Donald Trump praised Elon Musk for firing workers who strike or threaten to, which led United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain to declare, “When we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean. When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean.”) A couple of Vance’s lines received applause.
Last week Vance visited a doughnut shop in Georgia, a campaign stop involving a wildly uncomfortable interaction that the Ohio senator has since blamed on his staff.
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A month before that, his campaign decided, for inexplicable reasons, to film and release this video:
