Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance should be arrested with an injunction if he cannot stop “stalking” Vice President Kamala Harris, according to former President Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump.
Vance appeared to mirror the movements of Harris and his running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, during a tour of the battleground states this week. Vance held rival events in Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday while the former president remained absent from the campaign trail.
When Harris and Vance arrived in Wisconsin at the same airport around Wednesday, the Republican senator and Elegy Hillbilly the author walked across the tarmac for Air Force Two as part of a failed attempt to confront the vice president.
“I want to get a good look at the plane, because hopefully it’s going to be my plane for a few months,” Vance told reporters after the confrontation failed to take off. “I also think you’re going to be lonely because the vice president doesn’t answer questions from reporters.”
Mary Trump, a frequent critic of her uncle and his running mate, said Vance was “not only creepy” but “arrogant” when he offered advice in the Substack newsletter. The Good in Us that similar occurrences in the future will add to the “strange” repertoire and eventually lead to legal action.
“I hope the next time JD tries to get within a mile of the vice president’s plane, his Secret Service agents slap him with orders,” Mary Trump wrote. “Maybe it’s best not to add stalking to the list of strange behaviors.”
The former president’s nephew later suggested that Donald Trump would be disappointed that Vance drew a smaller crowd than the Harris/Walz rally, pointing out that the senator had a small event in Philadelphia shortly before the full Democratic ticket held its first rally on Tuesday.
“He was in Philadelphia to speak to supporters in an ‘intimate setting’ (guess what that means?) hours before Harris introduced Tim Walz as his running mate,” he wrote. “Donald definitely knows Vance is shadowing the enemy. But he will have a serious problem with the contrast between the massive Harris / Walz mass and the scores of people who look up to see Vance.”
Newsweek reached out for comment to the Trump/Vance campaign and Vance’s office via email Wednesday night.
Mary Trump was not the only critic of the GOP presidential ticket to suggest that Vance appeared to be following Harris and Walz on the campaign trail “stalking” on Wednesday.
Christine Pelosi, a Democratic strategist and daughter of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, also accused the senator of following Harris when he showed a video of the incident in Wisconsin in a post for X, formerly Twitter.
“When the criminal (Donald Trump) sent JD Vance to ‘cage’ MVP Harris at his events, we didn’t think he actually started stalking him on the tarmac!” Pelosi wrote. “Wonderful and strange – check out the nearest Air Force 2.”
“JD Vance is ‘stalking’ Kamala Harris in an awkward – ineffective – way to remind us of the T***p Hillary Clinton will have during the debate, making awkward pseudo-macho threats to distract her,” the author wrote. Joyce Carol Oates write. “Fear, dislike, anger at women who refuse to identify as wife, mother, servant.”
“To fight the so-called weirdos of JD Vance is to follow Kamala Harris across the country,” write comedian Jason Selvig.