‘Creepy!’ CNN Morning Crew Torches Trump Pick Vance Over ‘Bizarre’ Kamala Harris Plane Stunt

CNN’s morning show crew tore into Trump VP pick Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) over his stunt visit to Air Force Two as he and Vice President Kamala Harris shared a tarmac in Wisconsin.

Vance made a show of walking over to the vice president’s plane on Wednesday, then told reporters, “Figured I’d come by and wanted to just get a good look at the plane because hopefully it’ll be my plane in a few months,” and that he “wanted to go say hello to the vice president and ask her why does she refuse to answer questions.”

He did not speak to the VP.

On Thursday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning , anchor Kasie Hunt led her co-stars in trashing Vance as “creepy” and his stunt as “bizarre” and “childish” — and even GOP strategist Doug Heye warned this kind of thing can get “real creepy real quick”:

KASIE HUNT: This was a rather, shall we say, awkward moment. JD Vance approached Kamala Harris’s Air Force two while his plane and her plane were both on the same Wisconsin tarmac yesterday. Here was his explanation of what he was trying to do.

JD VANCE: Hey, guys. How are you? Good. I just I just wanted to check out my future plane, but I also wanted to go say hello to the vice president and ask her why Kamala Harris refuses–. Why does she refused to answer questions from the media?

And I also thought that the press gaggle following her might get a little lonely. I at least have enough respect for you all, and for the American people you report to, to come and talk to you and to answer some questions.

And so I thought, her reporters might actually benefit from that as well. So I had a little bit of fun. I don’t think the vice president waved at me as she drove away, but, I’m glad to have done it.

KASIE HUNT: So far fr–, I’m never going to question, you know, politician should talk to the media as a blanket rule.

However, I am a little curious, Isaac. What might have happened had he actually encountered Kamala Harris on the tarmac? How that would have gone down.

EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE: Yeah, and we’ll never know. (LAUGHTER).

JD Vance is obviously trying to have a better week for himself than he had last week. And, has been getting covered for other reasons now. But I guess he saw the opportunity on the tarmac yesterday and decided to try for it, but–.

DOUG HEYE: There are there like eight states that we’re focusing on. So this could happen again in any of those places any time.

KASIE HUNT: Well, he’s kind of following her around. Like if you look at the schedules.

DOUG HEYE: I, I would I would warn the Trump campaign, even though yes, you defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016. History is replete with male candidates overstepping their bounds against female candidates and the backfire that that can have, especially if you don’t have a real plan, or even if you do.

KASIE HUNT: It does feel a little uncomfortable!

DOUG HEYE: Yes, it gets real creepy real quick if you make a mistake.

KAREN FINNEY: And also like what was his vision? He was just going to roll up on her and Secret Service was not going to be like, “dude, what’s going–” I mean, it’s bizarre!

DOUG HEYE: Senator Rick Lazio, right, right. Senator Erskine Bowles.

KASIE HUNT: Right, right. Names that. Yes, yes. We have to dig deep. We have to dig deep here.

EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE: And it touches into Walz that on Tuesday, not just weird, but creepy. That’s what Democrats are going to want to try to play this into, and Doug you’re not a Democrat, but you’re–.

KAREN FINNEY: Immature! So childish!

Watch above via CNN This Morning .