Yesterday, JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, deboarded former President Donald Trump’s campaign plane. Next – some say shockingly – he headed straight for Air Force Two. While Vance approached the other plane and Vice President Kamala Harris’s party, a Secret Service agent walked toward Vance, waving their arm. The vice president’s vehicle was already driving away. Pivoting, Vance walked right up to reporters witnessing the act and said some, well, “awkward” things.

Harris, her running mate, Tim Walz, and Vance were in Wisconsin simultaneously to campaign. Their planes parked near each other, with Air Force Two arriving first. Vance walked over to the vice president’s plane, but once Harris’s motorcade got going, he changed gears and headed over to reporters. He started talking to them from a distance.

“I just wanted to check out my future plane.”

Ohio Rep. Senator JD Vance after approaching Air Force Two on a Wisconsin tarmac

While nearly chuckling, Vance explains to gathered reporters, “I just wanted to check out my future plane.” Then, he says he wanted to confront the vice president and ask her why she refuses to answer questions from the media. He says that he thought the “press gaggle following her might get a little lonely.”

Vance continues contrasting his attitude toward the press with Harris. He concludes, “I had a little fun. I don’t think the vice president waved at me as she drove away, but I’m glad to have done it.”

This afternoon, the Advocate reported that it spoke with a Secret Service spokesperson. They said that “without getting into specifics” on agency methods, the encounter wasn’t considered a security breach on Vance’s part.

Reporters, aides, and Secret Service agents attended both the candidate’s and the vice president’s arrivals on the tarmac. In a nutshell, the spokesperson suggested that the tarmac was within the Secret Service’s jurisdiction and that everyone on-scene with Vance was authorized to be there. Also, both parties had active Secret Service protection during the incident.

Many are calling the stunt much lower than “a bit of fun” – try “weird,” “cringe,” and “stalky.” Since Vance didn’t get “too” close to Air Force Two or Harris, apparently, the act wasn’t out of line in the Secret Service’s eyes.