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Sen. J.D. Vance quickly rushed to check on a woman who had screamed at a town hall event over the weekend.
The incident occurred Thursday during a town hall meeting in hurricane-ravaged Greensboro, North Carolina, according to the Washington Examiner.
Vance was engaged in a question-and-answer session with the audience, moderated by former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick when a scream interrupted a man’s inquiry about streamlining disaster relief aid.
“Just a second, man,” Vance said. “We OK?” he asked the audience.
The issue seemed to stem from the woman slipping from her seat and shrieking as she lost her balance, the Examiner reported. Vance handled the situation with a joke, however, making a lighthearted jab at Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Kamala Harris built this platform behind us. That’s what happened,” he said, as the audience responded with laughter.
Social media users responded with praise for Vance.
BREAKING: Someone just SCREAMED behind JD Vance at his Town Hall in North Carolina. It turns out that the lady’s chair broke. Vance immediately stopped everything he was doing to check up on her
Vance: “You okay, Ma’am?” And he even even added jokes, “Kamala Harris built this… pic.twitter.com/bTTEnrxlyy
— George (@BehizyTweets) October 10, 2024
He was able to remain calm. That scream would have shaken most people.
— Sharon Palmer (@SharPalm1918) October 11, 2024
Marines are trained to run to the danger.
— guycocoa (@guycocoa) October 11, 2024
Marines are trained to run to the danger.
— guycocoa (@guycocoa) October 11, 2024
Multiple pollsters have recorded a significant increase in the Republican vice presidential nominee’s approval rating following his commanding debate victory over Democratic challenger Tim Walz earlier this month.
Several polls and focus groups conducted in the hours after the debate yielded highly favorable results for the Trump-Vance campaign. Vance excelled in social media polls and was also declared the winner in surveys by CNN, NBC News, Fox News, and others.
According to a poll conducted by CNN, Vance started the night with a favorability rating in the red at -22. After the debate, this rating improved to -3 among the network’s left-leaning viewers, representing a 19-point swing during the course of the debate.
CBS News/YouGov found that 40 percent of respondents held a favorable view of Vance before the debate. This figure increased to 49 percent afterward, while those with an unfavorable view of him decreased by eight points during the night. An additional 4 percent of respondents remained undecided after the debate.
Several left-wing pundits were compelled to acknowledge that Vance had achieved a commanding victory over his Democratic rival.
Walz faced multiple setbacks during the 90-minute debate, including a significant moment when he was unable to explain why he had misrepresented his trips to China. The Minnesota governor claimed he was in the country during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, but a report from the Washington Free Beacon and Minnesota Public Radio found his assertion to be false.
The Democratic Party nominee also declared that he has “become friends with school shooters” in another bizarre moment.
“I think we shouldn’t lose track, I think even in the civility of the fact that J.D. Vance came to this debate to land a bunch of punches, and he did. He landed a lot of punches in between all the niceties and all of that,” said CNN’s Abby Phillip.
She also suggested that Walz was significantly underprepared for the debate. CNN had previously reported that Walz felt very nervous about confronting a “lawyer type” like J.D. Vance and was particularly concerned about disappointing Vice President Harris.
CNN’s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, notably, were also critical of Walz, with each of them alternately opining that he appeared to either lack debate prep or had far too much of it and was not quick enough on his feet to counter Vance’s many jabs at Harris.
