In an election season that has already seen two assassination attempts on the Republican presidential nominee, it was a scene that could have meant the worst.
But when a woman’s scream pierced the hall during an event where GOP vice presidential candidate and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance was appearing, Vance didn’t show a second’s hesitation.
He leaped to his feet immediately to see what was wrong — and made sure it was all right.
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
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— George (@BehizyTweets) October 10, 2024
The action took place Thursday during a town hall meeting in Greensboro, in hurricane-ravaged North Carolina, according to the Washington Examiner.
Vance was conducting a question-and-answer session with the audience moderated by former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick when the scream interrupted a man’s question about streamlining disaster relief aid.
The video is below:
“Just a second, man,” Vance said.
“We OK?” he asked the audience.
The problem appeared to be that the woman had slipped from her seat and shrieked as she lost her balance, the Examiner reported.
Vance passed off the incident with a joke — and a jibe at Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris:
“Kamala Harris built this platform behind us. That’s what happened,” he said, as the audience laughed.
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Considering that former President Donald Trump barely survived an assassin’s bullet in Pennsylvania in July, and that another would-be assassin was arrested after being changed from the scene of a planned golf-course attack on Trump in September, any out-of-the-way occurrence at a political gathering could signal a real danger to the candidate on stage.
But in the real-time moment of crisis, Vance showed no concern for his own well-being, only a determination to face the problem at hand.
And social media users took notice:
His natural reaction in those first split seconds says a hell of a lot about the man.
— Mark Daub (@mark_daub) October 11, 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
In addition to being Trump’s running mate, an Ohio senator and best-selling author, Vance is a Marine Corps veteran who served from 2003-2007, according to USA Today.
He spent six months on duty in Iraq as a military public affairs officer.
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