WATCH: Young Trump Supporter Skips School, Asks For Picture With VP Vance

Vice President JD Vance hosted a fiery rally in which he rebuked the recent surge of left-wing violence and laid out the Trump Administration’s plan for tackling it in Concord, North Carolina on Wednesday. The event was not without a lighthearted moment, however, when a young Trump supporter stepped forward to the microphone and asked a question.

When Vance was taking questions from the audience, a young man named Henry stepped up and asked a question that had nothing to do with politics. “I skipped school today. I was wondering if I could get a picture with you?” Henry asked.

Both Vance and the crowd erupted in laughter over the boy’s confession. “Henry said, ‘I skipped school can I have a picture with you?'” thee vice president said. “Well, I guess you gotta have some excuse to skip school, so I might as well get a photo with Henry.”

Vance then invited the boy on stage and snapped a quick selfie while the crowd cheered. “I wish I got questions that easy, but I’m not holding out hope,” the vice president joked.

Much of the press conference took on a more serious tone, however, as Vance addressed the attack on an ICE facility in Dallas that occurred just hours before. A gunman who scribbled anti-ICE messages on a rifle indiscriminately fired at an ICE office and an agency van in a side parking lot, killing two illegal alien detainees and critically injuring a third.

Vance pointed to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as part of the rhetoric that led to Wednesday’s attack. The governor accused ICE agents of “kidnapping” people from the streets as part of an “authoritarian government” while calling on his supporters to “push back.”

“Because here’s what happens when Democrats like Gavin Newsom did, say that these people are part of an authoritarian government. When the left -wing media lies about what they’re doing, when they lie about who they’re arresting, when they lie about the actual job of law enforcement, what they’re doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence.”

Vance went on to state that disagreements over policy are one thing, but stressed that apocalyptic rhetoric from the left must cease. “You don’t have to agree with my immigration policies. You don’t have to agree with Donald Trump’s immigration policies. But if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America,” the vice president declared.