JD Vance struggles to make small talk and order donuts from unimpressed workers in awkward video

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance turned the joyous task of ordering donuts into a deliciously awkward encounter, a new video reveals.

The Ohio Senator walked into a donut shop in Georgia ahead of his remarks in Valdosta, Georgia on Thursday, where he introduced himself to a server who immediately said she did not want to be filmed, in a stilted exchange that is not helping the Republican candidate divorce himself from the “weird” label.

“I’m JD Vance. I’m running for vice president,” Vance tells the donut shop worker, who simply replies: “Okay.”

“We’re gonna do two dozen. Just a random assortment of stuff here,” he continues while browsing the donuts in the display cases.

“Everything. A lot of glazed here. Sprinkle stuff. A lot of cinnamon rolls. Just whatever makes sense,” Vance said.

As the worker fills up his box of donuts, Vance struggles to make small talk by asking workers behind the counter how long they have been working there.

He asked one worker how long the place had been around, and was told it had been in business for four years.

“About four years? Okay,” Vance said. “Well, we selected this place. I didn’t know if it had been here for 20 years or four years. You never know.”

The clip comes as Vance has strived to combat the “weird” description that Democrats, including vice president Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, have given him.

A series of resurfaced clips and text messages capturing Vance’s extreme stances have contributed to this label. Vance called pregnancy resulting from rape “inconvenient,” branded Harris a “childless cat lady,” suggested that parents should have more of a vote than childless adults, and drastically flip-flopped on his views about Trump.

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