Sen. J.D. Vance defended a McDonald’s location in Pennsylvania that closed its indoor dining room ahead of former President Donald Trump’s visit to the restaurant, citing recent assassination attempts on Trump. happened this year.  The former president’s brief shift at the iconic fast-food chain blew up on social media on Sunday, showing him shoveling french fries into boxes while handing out orders for customer in the driver’s window. Some media outlets have accused Trump’s McDonald’s visit of being “staged,” prompting Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, to claim that the former president “really won the news day “.

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“And the fact that these people are accusing him of staging an incident of course, the president has to have security because there have been two assassination attempts on him in the last eight weeks,” Vance said on the show America’s Newsroom by Fox News. “He can’t just walk into a McDonalds and sign a W-9 form and actually get paid. This doesn’t work that way, especially when his life is at stake. But look, he interacted with people. He talked to the staff. He gave people food, and I think, he was just doing what he did best, which was being among the people, talking to them about what they cared about. He showed, I think, a real interest in his employees and their lives, where they come from and what they actually do in their jobs, and that’s something you can’t orchestrate and you cannot be faked.”

Vance also pointed out how several Democratic senators seeking reelection next month, including Sens. Bob Casey and Tammy Baldwin, are trying to connect their close to Trump while still keeping a distance from President Joe Biden. Vance noted that these candidates have not run any ads connecting themselves to Harris and pointed out that this is why she will lose the presidential race to Trump next month.