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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 …