‘DeSantis vibe’: JD Vance roasted for ‘weird’ answer when asked why people would want to have a beer with him

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is being widely mocked after he appeared to struggle to answer a simple question on why Americans might want to go for a drink with him.

“Why would people in Wisconsin want to have a beer with you?” a reporter asked Vance at a campaign stop in Eau Claire on Wednesday.

In an awkward moment,the Ohio Senator laughed and then stumbled over a response.

“Uh well, I guess, I guess they’d, they’d like, they’d want to have a beer with me because I actually do like to drink beer,” he said.

“I probably like to drink beer a little bit too much but that’s OK, I’m sure the media won’t give me too much crap over that.”

He quickly changed tact to heaping praise on his running mate instead: “But look, I, I mean, my, my… the reason I’m doing this and the reason I think Donald Trump is doing this – and I think the media often slanders him but… I’ve never met a guy who likes normal people more than Donald Trump.”

A clip of the moment was quickly shared on X where social media users piled in to mock the Yale Law graduate, former venture capitalist and author, with several quickly branding Vance “weird” – echoing the highly successful attack line first coined by Kamala Harris’s new running mate Tim Walz.

“Yikes. He’s weird,” one person posted.

“JD Vance channeling his Ron DeSantis vibe,” another commentator chimed in, alluding to the Florida governor’s own string of awkward moments during his failed presidential run earlier this year.

“Those ‘gotcha’ questions, ya gotta watch out for those,” another X user wrote sarcastically. “Snagglepussed on a beer question. This guy doesn’t have the chops.”

“He really is the absolute worst at public speaking,” said a third. “Maybe he should have had a few