Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence quieted a campaign rally crowd Thursday that booed a woman who asked how he can tolerate Donald Trump’s disrespect of American servicemen.
After delivering a standard stump speech, Pence took audience questions at a room inside a Carson City, Nevada, casino.
The second question came from a woman who said her son serves in the U.S. Air Force. The mother asked about Trump’s treatment of Muslim parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son, a decorated Army veteran, was killed in Iraq in 2004.
“Will there ever be a point in time when you’re able to look Trump in the eye and tell him enough is enough?” the woman asked Pence, prompting boos from the crowd.
Pence asked the crowd to quiet down, then said about the questioner: “That’s what freedom looks like. That’s what freedom sounds like.”
“I know this has been much in the news as of late in the last few days,” Pence said, acknowledging the controversy over Trump’s reaction to the Khan family. “But as I said last night … Captain Khan is an American hero and we honor him and honor his family.”
Pence added that he has never spent time around someone who is “more devoted” to military and to veterans than Trump.
Earlier in the evening in Columbus, Ohio, Trump did not mention his spat with the Khans that began on Thursday at the Democratic National Convention when they said the billionaire had sacrificed nothing and no one.