Kamala Harris reportedly snubs JD Vance by declining to invite him on pre-inaugural tour of VP residence
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This year’s election campaign was particularly ferocious, with Vance referring to the vice president as ‘trash’ during a rally in November. Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly snubbed Vice President-elect JD Vance by not inviting him for a tour of the vice president’s residence before the inauguration.
![[The Naval Observatory is the official residence of the Vice President.]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/12/25/17/Migrant_Dropoffs_78875.jpg)
While the tour for the incoming family has become a recent norm, Harris was never at the vice president’s residence before her inauguration amid the Covid-19 pandemic and President-elect Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The residence is located on the grounds of the Naval Observatory in northwest Washington.
In November 2016, then-outgoing Vice President Joe Biden met with then-Vice President-elect Mike Pence at the Naval Observatory. They spent around two hours together, having lunch and a look around the residence. In 2008, then-Vice President Dick Cheney had Biden over at the residence for almost an hour, Cheney’s office said at the time.
However, there has been some contact between the staff of Harris and Vance. The Vance family reportedly had a call with the Navy facilities team that operates the Naval Observatory around Christmas to “discuss the layout of the Residence, logistics and practicalities of the move in, and to help answer any questions the Vance’s had as it related to the Residence,” a person familiar with the vice president’s schedule told CNN.
