Donald Trump’s running mate didn’t receive the warmest of welcomes at a firefighters union conference in Boston on Thursday.
Ohio Sen. JD Vance could clearly hear the boos when he took the stage in front of the International Association of Fire Fighters, a union both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are courting for an endorsement.
Vance took the tepid reception in stride.
“Sounds like we got some fans and some haters,” he quipped. “That’s okay. … I’ll make my pitch.”
Vance has been described as a new breed of ostensibly pro-labor Republican, but it was clear many of the firefighters in attendance weren’t buying it.
Trump was vehemently anti-union throughout his first term, stacking agencies with appointees hostile to labor and trying to break federal…