Vice President JD Vance made the comments during an appearance in Tyler, Texas on Tuesday.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore With the GOP facing increasingly dire straits in the midterms, Vice President JD Vance appeared to suggest during a stop in Tyler that James Talarico, the Democrat running for Texas' contested U.S. Senate seat, is a pervert or pedophile.

"You gotta wonder what the internet search history of a man like that looks like," Vance said of Talarico, a former San Antonio schoolteacher and a Presbyterian seminarian.