Popular Pennsylvania restaurant Primanti Brothers is scrambling to avoid blowback after turning away GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance when he tried to make a campaign stop Saturday.
The Ohio senator was initially stopped at the doors of the shop while attempting to make a campaign stop – as staff said they were not given advanced notice.
The manager “just freaked out a little bit because there were a lot of people and she didn’t want to make her restaurant part of a campaign stop,” Vance said in the parking lot outside the 90-year-old business. “We went in there, we paid for everybody’s food, we gave them a nice tip, and of course when I gave them a nice tip.”
Vance’s welcome was a far cry from the Primanti Brothers reception to Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz when the pair stopped by the business back in August.
Their visit caused its own controversy.
Patrons of Primanti Brothers claimed that they were forced to leave the premises before Harris and Walz would enter.
Diners claimed that they were booted from their barstools so that the Harris-Walz campaign could bring in chosen people for a ‘staged’ photo-op full of supporters.
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