Vice President JD Vance cranked the cringe dial up to eleven with his latest attempt at a joke at the Ohio Republican Party dinner in Lima, Ohio, on Tuesday. Vance, while delivering the event’s keynote speech, was talking about how it’s essential to take the rough with the smooth in politics when he said:

The vice president also revealed he didn’t learn he was going to be Trump’s running mate until the morning of the RNC

Vice President JD Vance returns to Ohio for an Ohio Republican Party dinner in Lima on June 24. The event is billed as an "an evening of support" with Vance, a Middletown native. The dinner – with tickets at $75 a person – is sold out, according to a recording on the Allen County Republican Party's voicemail and Facebook posts.