Vice President JD Vance has spent October dealing with being booed and repeated crowd disruptions at his campaign events. Vance’s Monday stop in Montana added another entry to that list. When hecklers cut into his speech, Vance fired back with a nickname for the protesters, and his supporters made their feelings known loudly.
JD Vance said after protesters interrupted his Montana speech
The disruption happened at an airport hangar in Belgrade, Montana, where Vance was giving his speech during the midterm push. Shouts from the audience forced him to stop mid-sentence. While Vance turned to spot the source, the backers standing behind him found the hecklers first and responded by booing them, with several flashing thumbs-down.
Vance waited at the podium with a brief, uncomfortable smile while the room broke into a “USA, USA” chant. Three people—two women and a man—were escorted out by security.
“You can rest assured that at any event that we do you’re going to have a few yahoos, who pretend that the Democrats aren’t who they already have shown themselves to be,” Vance said.
That remark follows a month of similar moments for JD Vance. Protesters have now interrupted six of his speeches in October, hitting events across Florida, Alaska, Texas, North Carolina, and Ohio.
His responses have ranged from calling a Florida heckler a “clown” and a “Democrat plant” to telling an Alaska crowd that one man “wants to ruin the party.” In Texas, he dubbed a protester waving a Mexican flag a “crazy person.”
The pattern isn’t limited to the vice president. Trump rallies have seen their own removals, including 18 protesters ejected from a Texas event in early October.
Montana gave Vance a safer backdrop—Trump carried it by nearly 20 points in 2024. And the crowd’s reaction suggested supporters were eager to drown out the dissent.
