Vice President Mike Pence thanked Governor Charlie Baker for meeting him Saturday at the airport on Nantucket, where Pence was scheduled to attend a fund-raiser.
“Thank you @CharlieBakerMA for welcoming us to Nantucket today, @SecondLady and I are excited to visit your great state,” Pence tweeted Saturday afternoon. A photo shows Pence, his wife, Karen Pence, and Baker standing in front of the vice president’s airplane on the tarmac.
Thank you @CharlieBakerMA for welcoming us to Nantucket today, @SecondLady and I are excited to visit your great state! I look forward to continuing to work together for all of the hard working Americans in MA and around the country! pic.twitter.com/q0Tf9eHuRH
— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) August 10, 2019
The vice president also apparently had time for a bike ride on the island. And Lance Armstrong did, too.
Armstrong, the disgraced former cycling champion, tweeted that he saw Pence, adding profanity for emphasis.
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“I can’t drop many people on a bike these days but I just blew the ... doors off Mike Pence on a Nantucket bike path. Day. Made.”
Armstrong added in a second tweet, in a apparent response to his first, that “Some people can’t take a joke or even having a little fun on twitter. Lightin’ ... up people. But seriously. I did blow his doors off!”
Pence was on Nantucket to attend a fund-raiser hosted by Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, among others. The event was to benefit the RNC and President Trump’s re-election campaign
Before the event, Baker’s aides said he would greet the vice president in Baker’s official capacity as governor and would not attend the fund-raiser.
Baker, a moderate Republican, said he did not vote for Trump or Pence in the 2016 election.
Globe reporter Josh Miller contributed to this article.