Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate in the 2024 White House race, said he will be a vice president who “never forgets“ where he came from while striking a populist tone at the RNC.
Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate in the 2024 race for the White House, struck a populist tone as he formally accepted the Republican Party’s vice presidential nomination Wednesday night, pledging he will be a vice president who „never forgets“ where he came from.
Delivering his acceptance speech two days after Trump named the 39-year-old Ohio senator as his running mate, Vance said the GOP convention marked a „celebration of what America once was, and with God’s grace, what it will soon be again.“
„It is a reminder of the sacred duty we have to preserve the American experiment, to choose a new path for our children and grandchildren“, he added.
Vance – who described the Republican Party as being „united in our love for this country and committed to free speech and the open exchange of ideas“ for the next four years – reflected fondly on his upbringing in a „small town where people spoke their minds.“
Vance also pointed to Biden’s decades-long career in politics, saying that when he „was a sophomore in high school, that same career politician named Joe Biden gave China a sweetheart trade deal that destroyed even more good American middle-class manufacturing jobs.“
„When I was a senior in high school, that same Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq“, he added. „And at each step of the way, in small towns like mine in Ohio or next door in Pennsylvania or Michigan and states all across our country, jobs were sent overseas and our children were sent to war.“
Vance also touched on housing and the economy during his remarks, declaring that „Joe Biden’s inflation crisis, my friends, is really an affordability crisis.“
„Many of the people that I grew up with can’t afford to pay more for groceries, more for gas, more for rent. And that’s exactly what Joe Biden’s economy has given them“, he said.
Vance, arguably as vice presidential nominee the MAGA movement’s heir apparent, made his comments in his address to the roughly 2,400 delegates and thousands of other attendees packed inside Milwaukee’s Fiserv Arena, and the millions of Americans watching the GOP convention from home.
„Let me tell you about the future. President Trump’s vision is so simple and yet so powerful. We’re done, ladies and gentlemen, catering to Wall Street.
