'Help this campaign fly': Joe Biden trolls Mike Pence for fly landing on his head during VP debate

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Andrew Feinberg

White House Correspondent

Joe Biden trolled Mike Pence about his fly trouble during Wednesday’s vice presidential debate as the pesky insect became a social media sensation.

The vice president was either unaware of refused to swat away the fly away as it settled on his white hair for two minutes and two seconds.

Mr Biden, the Democratic candidate for the White House, immediately posted a picture of him holding a fly swat with the caption “Pitch in $5 to help this campaign fly.”

Mr Biden also tweeted a link to flywillvote.com that redirected to iwillvote.com.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the star of HBO White House satire Veep, tweeted that she could not believe what she was seeing.

“Well, I wish we had thought of this on @VeepHBO - who’s controlling the fly?” she wrote on Twitter.

Sarah Jessica Parker took to Instagram to joke about the fly.

“Is that a fly???? On his head. I think that is a fly. Not sure if anyone else is watching. Or caught that. Hmmm…,” she wrote.

Across social media people made fun of Mr Pence and his fly issue.

And the fly even got its own Twitter account, @MikePenceFly___, which now has more than 49,000 followers.