Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance fired back at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over the “weird” attack line against him — saying that it’s the Democrat VP pick who has proved he’s the odd one.

Sen. Vance (R-Ohio), 40, recounted seeing footage of Walz, 60, greeting his wife with a “Midwestern handshake” in an awkward moment on stage at the rally where Kamala Harris introduced him as her running mate.

“I remember when I had just been announced as the VP nominee, I gave my big speech and I saw my wife and I gave her a big hug and a kiss because I love my wife,” Vance told CNN’s “State of the Union” in an interview that aired Sunday. “And I think that’s what a normal person does.”

Totally normal to greet your wife with a firm handshake and a bro hug/back slap. Tim Walz isn’t weird at all, guys 🤣🤣🤣pic.twitter.com/PHAKNEUF3H— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 11, 2024

Sen. JD Vance taunted Kamala Harris on the tarmac where Air Force Two landed last week. AP

“Tim Walz gave his wife a nice, firm Midwestern handshake and then tried to sort of awkwardly correct for it,” he added.

He said he believes the “weirdness” is because Walz and Harris “aren’t comfortable in their own skin because they’re uncomfortable with their policy positions.”

Vance further contended that Walz and Harris’ “name calling instead of telling the American people how they’re going to make their lives better” is what’s actually “weird.”

Donald Trump Jr., who has long been friendly with Vance, highlighted a video of the handshake after Vance’s CNN interview dropped Sunday.

Kamala Harris unveiled Tim Walz as her running mate. REUTERS

At one point, CNN host Dana Bash asked Vance about former President Donald Trump’s response to the “weird” attacks against the Trump-Vance campaign, to which which Trump said, “Not me, they’re talking about JD.”

Vance chuckled in response.

“Certainly they’ve levied that charge at me more than anyone else. But I think that drives home how they’re trying to distract from their own policy failures,” Vance replied. “This is fundamentally schoolyard stuff.”

Both Walz and Vance hail from Midwestern states and have cited their upbringing as proof that they’re in sync with middle America, while accusing the other side of being out of step.

Vance has emerged as an attack dog of sorts for Trump, upping his media itinerary and needling Harris for sparingly taking on the record questions from the press — something that started to shift towards the end of last week.

Late last month, Trump ignited a firestorm during a gathering of black journalists in Chicago when he declared that Harris used to identify as Indian-American and then she “happened to turn black.”

He later added, “I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t.” Harris is the descendant of a Jamaican-American father and an Indian-American mother.

The Ohio Republican has emerged as the Trump campaign’s attack dog. Getty Images

Vance argued that Trump wasn’t attacking Harris based on her “racial identity” that day, and declined to address questions about her racial identity.

“I believe that Kamala Harris is whatever she says she is,” Vance responded when asked if he believes she is black. “But I believe, importantly, that President Trump is right, that she is a chameleon.”

“She pretends to be one thing in front of one audience. She pretends to be something different in front of another audience,” he said.

“Look, she’s not running a political campaign. She’s running a movie. She only speaks to voters behind a teleprompter. Everything is scripted.”

The GOP veep nominee also sat for an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation” that aired Sunday. During that interview, he defended Trump’s praise of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

“I think that President Trump gets along with world leaders,” Vance contended. “And there’s nothing wrong with him complimenting them as people if it makes him more effective diplomatically.”

“We have to remember that Democrats, including Kamala Harris, attacked Donald Trump for having a good relationship with Vladimir Putin,” he continued. “Well, when Donald Trump was president, Vladimir Putin didn’t invade another country. When Kamala Harris was vice president, he did. So maybe they should take a lesson from Trump’s playbook.”

The Harris campaign claims to have momentum at its back. AP

Earlier in that interview, Vance opened up about some of the attacks against his wife, Usha, who is Indian-American.

“That’s the nature of public life in America, and it’s disgraceful. Look, I love my wife. I’m very proud of her. I’m extremely lucky to have met her and to have gotten the chance to build a life with her,” he said.

“[If] people want to attack me, attack my policy views, they’re welcome to. I signed up for it. My wife didn’t sign up for it. And by the way, she’s way out of their league — the people who are attacking her. So I wish they would just keep their mouth shut, or at least focus on me,” he continued.

“I get pissed off sometimes.”

The Buckeye State Republican also defended himself over a resurfaced interview from 2021 with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, in which he remarked about “childless cat ladies” running the country.

Specifically, Vance groused that the country was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

The Ohio senator has been sitting down for media interviews and shaming Kamala Harris for largely steering clear of the media. David Rodriguez Munoz / USA TODAY NETWORK

In that exchange, he name-dropped Harris and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Harris has two stepchildren and Buttigieg later adopted twins with husband Chasten.

Democrats have since pummeled him over the remark and he has faced backlash. In an interview that aired Sunday, Vance argued that his real meaning had been misrepresented.

“There are, though, policy positions behind my view that the country should become more pro-family. Right? One thing I learned as a dad is … we got these ridiculous surprise medical billings from the hospital because we had chosen an out-of-network provider, of course, at this most stressful of all imaginable moments,” Vance told ABC’s “This Week.”

“It is frankly, shameful that the Harris administration has lied about what I actually said. Look, sometimes family doesn’t work out for people, and that’s OK. But I do think that Kamala Harris herself has pursued some anti-family policies, and that is a problem and something we ought to push back against,” he added.