A photograph of Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance wearing a red T-shirt featuring a Soviet hammer and sickle has gone viral on social media.
The image was posted to X/Twitter by user @clliday on July 24, showing Vance in the garment surrounded by four men, three of whom are dressed as professional wrestlers at what appears to be a costume party.
It has been re-posted numerous times by several accounts, and has been viewed over 1 million times across the posts. Some posters intentionally cropped the other costumed men out of the photo.
Vance’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
User @travis_county, a Kamala Harrissupporter, re-posted a cropped version of the image on Sunday, writing “run this everywhere in …