As Vice President Mike Pence landed at Burlington International Airport on Friday, a half-dozen spectators watched from the Pizza Putt parking lot across the street from the Vermont Air National Guard hangar.

A Jericho woman snapped selfies of Air Force Two under the careful watch of snipers and plainclothes Secret Service officers standing conspicuously inside the airport’s perimeter fence. The amateur photographer sheepishly described herself as a Pence supporter, though she declined an interview.

There was no media scrum or large crowd of waving supporters to greet Pence, who landed shortly after 1:30 p.m. Within a few minutes, his motorcade of about 15 SUVs, including Vermont State Police vehicles, slipped through the airport fence and drove away.

The vice president has so far kept a low profile in Vermont, where less than 30 percent of voters supported him and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 election. The Labor Day weekend visit wasn’t announced in advance — WCAX broke news of the trip just a few hours before Pence landed — and he hasn’t announced any public events in the state. WCAX reported that the Veep was headed for Lake Hortonia in Hubbardton.

While one Pence supporter showed up outside the airport to greet him, his more numerous critics in the Green Mountain State gave him a less-welcoming hello on social media. One man posted a photo of himself flipping off the vice president's motorcade.


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