Pittsburgh Eatery Denies Vance Entrance, But Hosted Harris in August
JD Vance handled the situation well. Good for him.
Republican VP candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) once showed he’s the most presidential of the four candidates.
The Trump-Vance campaign planned a stop at the iconic Pittsburgh restaurant Primanti Bros.
Trump-Vance supporters filled the place, but once Vance showed up, the manager denied him entrance:
A source familiar with the campaign told Fox News Digital that when the vice presidential campaign stopped by Primanti Bros. Restaurant and Bar in North Versailles, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, their planned visit to excited supporters was cut short when they were promptly kicked out by employees. The source noted that Primanti Bros. management was aware that the Trump-Vance campaign was planning on stopping by.
An employee told the campaign that this was “not a campaign stop” and that “JD’s not allowed in,” the source said, adding that the manager threatened to call the police if they didn’t leave.
Trump-Vance supporters shot back, booing the employees as they were ushered to the exit, the source said.
Vance handled it perfectly when greeting supporters in the parking lot:
We paid for everybody’s food, we gave them a nice tip. And of course when I gave him a nice tip I said no taxes on Tip Hold it against her she just got A little nervous Business let keep on supporting and most importantly November 5th or before Go vote lets go win this thing.
.@primantibros refused to let @JDVance in to their restaurant full of customers waiting to greet him. They all paid for their drinks, cancelled their food orders and left after hearing that VP candidate was not welcome. Here was his response #Trump2024Vance #RepublicanParty #GOP pic.twitter.com/JsggvQiuhu
— Anissa Zappala (@anissa_zappala) September 28, 2024
Primanti Bros. Restaurant and Bar released a lame statement, especially since, again…this event had to be planned.
Because two people tried to kill former President Donald Trump, I would hope security made arrangements before it happened.
Give me a break
— Primanti Bros (@primantibros) September 28, 2024
This is the same place that allowed VP Kamala Harris to stop by. The diners accused the campaign of staging the whole thing with hired actors:
Harris’ campaign made a stop at the Primanti Bros. location on Aug. 18 – much to the chagrin of locals, who were kicked out of the restaurant.
“I wanted to watch some sports and enjoy an afternoon lunch,” Mark Dodson previously told Fox News Digital. “Around 3:30, the bartender, she goes, ‘It’s last call’ – what do you mean last call?”
Employees informed the Pennsylvania native that the restaurant was closing early for a private event.
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Outside, kicked-out patrons and Trump supporters protested the event. Others verbally accused the campaign of employing “actors” – as video captured by ABC News of Harris’ visit itself depicted a full dining room with people enjoying their food.
“Holy hell, all these actors in these vans,” a man was heard shouting among the anti-Harris demonstrators.
Going to @primantibros in Pittsburgh is the cultural touchstone equivalent of getting a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. Problem for Primanti instead of welcoming to both sides they welcomed Kamala Harris here & not Vance
Cannot be understated the grace @JDVance handled this with https://t.co/yqISx6VWN4 pic.twitter.com/sBwKwtenuv— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) September 28, 2024
Remember, @primantibros kicked out their paying customers so Kamala could bring in a fake audience for a staged appearance. pic.twitter.com/jmftADKJk7
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) September 28, 2024
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I don’t care what JD Vance said, Primanti Bros are scumbags. No one should patronize any of their businesses. They are dirtbags of the worst sort.
They did NOT deserve any tips. Tips are for decent service, not d-bag service.
To be fair to the waitstaff, the report is that it was the management that didn’t want Vance there.
Why would anybody be surprised at that? If the management wanted them there, it’s unlikely they’d be bulled by Karens on the waitstaff.
I imagine the manager of that particular location is a leftist Harris supporter. I wouldn’t be surprised if the corporate office didn’t have a thing or two to say to her. They’ve got 46 locations, including two in Florida.
What happened with the Harris-Walz event? They did it right. You even quoted it:
Let’s not wind readers up with rage-bait.
You completely miss the point, or pretend to. Our anger is not because they chose to close early to host a campaign event for Harris. It’s that they refused to do the same for Vance, thus showing that they are hostile to us and our cause.
Therefore if there are any Republicans who have been patronizing this establishment, or any other establishment in the same chain, they should take their custom elsewhere. I will not do so, because I have never even heard of this place, have never spent a dime there, and thus have no custom to remove.
Go woke, go broke.
Harris booked a private event. Vance did not. What point am I supposed to be missing?
Harris did not “book a private event”. She set up a campaign stop, as all politicians routinely do at stores and restaurants everywhere. In the case of candidates with Secret Service protection such visits are never spontaneous; they’re always set up in advance. It’s not normal to boot out existing customers, but the place cooperated to the extent of doing so, so that the Harris supporters bused in could fill the place. All very well and nice.
Vance didn’t ask anyone to leave. But when he showed up they told him to leave. It’s their property, and assuming the management made this decision they had the right to do so. But it means they’ve declared war on half the country and should bear the consequences.
“Let’s not wind readers up with rage-bait.”
Wow! That’s some bait right there!
Is this an in kind contribution?
No. It was not something given to the Harris campaign. That is the definition of a contribution. Nothing here was contributed. Allowing Harris to visit your location isn’t anything given to her, let alone to her campaign.
It’s every property owner’s choice who is welcome on his property and who is not. Public accommodations are not allowed to exclude people on several grounds that are explicitly specified in the law; they retain the right to exclude people on any other grounds or on no grounds at all.
The bigger point is Harris had the customers leave so she could load the place with supporters/actors to make it look like real Pennsylvania people were for her. Primanti Bros assisted in that fiction. Vance let it be known he was stopping by. Real folks showed up to catch a glimpse. No astroturfing here. FKH
I don’t see any grass-roots attractiveness of Vance. It’s another campaign event. = taking as important what is not important.
I wonder if they serve Bud Light at Primanti Bros? They sure seem to want to go down the Bud Light rathole! Michael Jordan was a business genius when he said he didn’t get into politics, because Republicans buy shoes, too. Maybe Primanti Bros needs to learn that lesson the hard way?
In 2020, the greater Pittsburg area voted 50.7% for Trump and 47.9% for Biden (per ChatGPT). Not sure why any business in such an evenly divided community would want to take sides when they don’t have to–particularly against the side that carried the area in 2020. I guess math is hard.
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