Is cheering right now because the presidential nominee, who has yet to accept that nomination, that will happen tomorrow night, Donald Trump, is walking into the arena. He has the patch on his ear from the attempted assassination on Saturday. There are delegates here who have now put, not fake, but they have put bandages on their ears, even though they don't have injuries, in homage to their leader, President Trump. But here he is coming in to the sound of this is a man's world. I believe it's James Brown, right? Who sing this? I might be-You're on your own here. Okay. I think you're right.

I'm going to go with yes. But you mentioned that... Soaking it in. You mentioned that it is somewhat tradition for the nominee to be at the earlier days of the convention. Not always, though. I remember there were times when the presidential candidate would sometimes be campaigning and beam in from wherever they are, be here for a surprise visit. This is a very specific This is a significant event for this individual, for this candidate. Obviously, as we talked about, he wanted to make that hero's welcome entrance on Monday. But also, he loves the pageantry. He wants to be here for every minute than he possibly can be, because this is his party. This is his party, I mean, the political party, but also his celebration. I'm Alicia and this is my husband, Hernan. Our son, Corporal Hunter-Lopes, whose name Joe Biden has refused to say out loud, was killed on August 26, 2021. He died during Joe Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Hunter was 22 years old and planned to come home to California after his tour to to follow in our footsteps. Herman and I work for the Roozac County Sheriff's office. Our family has a tradition of service in law enforcement.

Hunter was excited to carry it on. Instead, in the nearly three years since Hunter has been gone, there has been silence. Silence from that empty space at the dinner table, where Hunter would have joined his brothers and sister and us for family gatherings. And there has been a deafening silence from the Biden and Harris administration. Despite our pleas for answers and accountability, they have pushed us away and tried to silence us. The Biden administration has not owned up to the bad decisions. They have not been transparent about their failures, and their so all leaders work to protect themselves rather than our sons and daughters who took the oath to defend our define what a woman is. On one hand, they think free speech protects their right to expose your children to explicit drag shows. On the other hand, they want to put you in jail for making a meme. It's like the entire world has been turned upside down. Yeah. Does any of this sound like a country that's going in the right direction? No. And honestly, who is actually running the country anyway? It's obviously not Joe Biden. So who are they asking us to elect? Seriously, who's running things? Does anyone really know? Is it Jill? Is it Hunter? Barack Obama? Maybe it's the Ghost of Cornpop. Whoever is running the show, the only thing they are effective at is persecuting my father. They twisted, contorted, and corrupted the criminal code to turn bookkeeping errors into finalies. They concocted new legal theories out of thin air. They imposed gag orders on my father because the last thing a defendant should be able to do is defend himself, right?They punished him for merely speaking the truth. They say they hate Vladimir Putin, but it sure seems like they've spent a lot of time copying his playbook. In this country, we don't criminalize political differences. We debate them. We vote on them. But we don't make you choose between picking a party or picking a jail cell.Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Usha Vance. It's safe to say that neither JD nor I expected to find ourselves in this position. But it's hard I wanted to imagine a more powerful example of the American dream, a boy from Middletown, Ohio. Katie, Katie, Katie, Katie, Katie raised by his grandmother through tough times, chosen to help lead our country through some of its greatest challenges. I am grateful to all of you for the trust you've placed in him and in our family. And with that, it is my great privilege to introduce my husband and the next vice President of the United States, JD Vance.Why don't we liberate these United States? We're the ones who need it work. Let the The best of the world help us watch for change, and let's rebuild a merry first. Thank you.Our highways and bridges are far and far. Who's blessed, who has been cursed?There's things to be done all over the world, but let's rebuild a merry first.Thank you. Thank you.Please.Wow.Wow. First of all, aren't I like a guy?Isn't she lovely? That's amazing. Greetings, Milwaukee, my fellow Americans and my fellow Republicans. My name is JD Vance from the great state of Ohio. Tonight... H-i-o. O-h-i-o. You guys, we're going to chill with the Ohio love. We're going to win Michigan, too, here. My friends, tonight is a night of hope, a celebration of what America once was, and with God's grace, what it will soon be again. Union. 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. But as we meet tonight, we cannot forget that this evening could have been so much different. Instead of a day of celebration, this could have been a day of heartache and morning. For the last eight years, President Trump has given everything he has to fight for the people of our country. He didn't need politics, but the country needed him. Now, prior to running for President, he was one of the most successful businessman in the world. He had everything anyone could ever in a life. And yet, instead of choosing the easy path, he chose to endure abuse, slander, and persecution.And he did it because he loves this country. I want all Americans to go and watch the video of a would be assassin coming a quarter of an inch from taking his life. Consider the lies they he told you about Donald Trump, and then look at that photo of him, defiant, fist in the air. When Donald Trump rose to his feet in that Pennsylvania field, all of America stood with him. And what did he call us to do for our country? To fight. To fight for America. Even in his most perilous moment, we were on his mind. His instinct was for us, for our country, to call us to something higher, to something greater, to once again be citizens who ask what our country needs of us. Now, consider what they said. They said he was a tyrant. They said he must be stopped at all costs. But how did he respond? He called for national unity, for national calm, literally right after an assassin nearly took his life. He remembered the victims of the terrible attack, especially the brave Cory Compertori, who gave his life to protect his family. God bless him. And then President Trump flew to Milwaukee and got back to work.Now, that's the man I've gotten to know personally over the last few years. He is tough, and he is, but he cares about people. He can stand defiant against an assassin one moment and call for national healing the next. He is a beloved father and grandfather, and of course, a once in a generation business leader. He's the man who is feared by America's adversaries. But two nights ago, and I'll share a moment, said good night to his two boys, told them he loved them, and made sure to give each of them a kiss on the cheek. I will say, Don and Eric squirmed the same way my four-year-old does when his daddy tries to give him a kiss on the cheek. Sorry, guys. He has all those things, but tonight we celebrate he is our once and future President of the United States of America. I want to respond to his call for unity myself. We have a big tent in this party on everything from national security to economic policy. But my message to you, my fellow Republicans, is we love this country and we are united to win. Now, I think our disagreements actually make us stronger.That's what I've learned in my time in the United States Senate, where sometimes I persuade my colleagues, and sometimes they persuade me. And my message to my fellow Americans, those watching from across the country, is, shouldn't we be governed by a party that is unafraid to debate debate ideas and come to the best solution? That's the Republican Party of the next four years, united in our love for this country and committed to free speech and the open exchange of ideas. And so tonight, Mr. Chairman, I stand here humbled, and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude to say I officially accept your nomination to be vice President of the United States of America. Our movement is about single moms like mine who struggled with money and addiction but never gave up. And I'm proud to say that tonight my mom is here, 10 years clean and sober. I love you, mom. Now, Joe Biden has been a politician in Washington for longer than I've been alive, 39 years old. Kamala Harris is not much further behind. For For half a century, he's been the champion of every major policy initiative to make America weaker and poorer. And in four short years, Donald Trump reversed decades of betrayals inflicted by Joe Biden and the rest of the corrupt Washington insiders.He created the greatest economy in history for workers. Really was amazing. There's this chart that shows worker wages, and they stagnated for pretty much my entire life until President Donald J. Trump came along. Workers' wages went through the roof. Months ago, I heard some young family member observe that their parents generation, the baby boomers, could afford to buy a home when they first entered the workforce. But I don't know this person observed if I'll ever be able to afford a home. The absurd cost of housing is the result of so many failures, and it reveals so much about what's broken in Washington. I can tell you exactly how it happened. Wall Street barons crashed the economy and American builders went out of business. As tradesmen scramble for jobs, houses stopped being built. The lack of good jobs, of course, led to stagnant wages. Then the Democrats flooded this country with millions of illegal aliens. Citizens had to compete with people who shouldn't even be here for precious housing. 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.Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe So prices soared, dreams were shattered, and China and the cartels sent Fentanyl across the border, adding addiction to the heartache.But ladies and gentlemen, that not the end of our story. We've heard about villains and their victims. I've talked a lot about that, but 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. We'll commit to the working man. One of the things that you hear people say sometimes is that America is an idea. To be clear, America was indeed founded on brilliant ideas like the rule of law and religious liberty, things written into the fabric of our Constitution and our nation. But America is not just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation. Now, it is part of that tradition, of course, that we welcome newcomers. But when we allow newcomers into our American family, we allow them on our terms. To the people of Middletown, Ohio, and all the forgotten communities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and every corner of our nation, I promise you this, I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from. Every single day for the next four years, when I walk into that White House to help President Trump, I will be doing it for you, for your family, for your future, and for this great country.Thank you. God bless all of you, and God bless our great country. Well, let's start with the most important fact. There is nothing in American political history that says a vice president actually makes a difference come election day. People vote for president. You can scour the books, you can scour the data, and you will find no compelling case that any nominee for vice president ever has been the factor in making a difference come election day. However, they can hurt. He didn't do anything to hurt them tonight. He gave a very compelling speech. We can argue about the policy. That's what debates are about.I don't think Trump picked him because he was a really great speaker, somebody who could liven up this room. He picked him because he had the the right message and the right biography and probably wasn't going to upstage him. I think he did probably all of those things tonight.I mean, look, so JD Vance isn't going to be a Vegas act. That's okay. He needs to be vice president. He doesn't need to overshadow Donald Trump. I was listening.Mission accomplished. I was listening to the song they played when he finished, Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow. Now they got Bill Clinton's song, and increasingly, they have Bill Clinton's voters. The people who are gravitating to this ticket are the same people who voted that working class base voted for Bill Clinton in the '90s. They largely gravitated to the Republicans over cultural issues, and now Vance and Trump are going to give him the economic agenda to go with it. I think he put a very friendly face on a pretty disturbing agenda. The good part of his agenda, I could tell him, guess what? You don't have to run for vice president for the good part of your agenda. You can just vote for Joe Biden. He's talking about a supply chains. Joe Biden passed a bill called the Chipsack that takes care of that and moves in the right direction without He's talking about his support. He's talking about not buying energy from people that don't like us.We're a net energy exporter. He's talking about manufacturing. The manufacturing peak under Biden is higher than the peak under Trump. If he wants his policy agenda, he can just stay home and vote for Joe Biden because we're doing that.Joe Biden might not be the candidate by tomorrow morning.That's not the problem with the speech. The problem with the speech is he's putting a very friendly face on a very selfish and narrow vision of what America is supposed to be. And unlike Trump, who is an intuitive, impulsive, instinctive nationalist, this is an ideological nationalist. That is a very different strain of the virus. He can sell this stuff to Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and normal people, but his vision will make America smaller, more narrow, and weaker, and that's the problem. But what Dana said earlier is actually true. His economic agenda sounded just like Bernie Sanders. Not Bill Clinton, but Bernie Sanders. And it's. The problem is that Donald Trump's program as President was very much a Wall Street-oriented program. It wasn't a populist agenda.

define what a woman is. On one hand, they think free speech protects their right to expose your children to explicit drag shows. On the other hand, they want to put you in jail for making a meme. It's like the entire world has been turned upside down. Yeah. Does any of this sound like a country that's going in the right direction? No. And honestly, who is actually running the country anyway? It's obviously not Joe Biden. So who are they asking us to elect? Seriously, who's running things? Does anyone really know? Is it Jill? Is it Hunter? Barack Obama? Maybe it's the Ghost of Cornpop. Whoever is running the show, the only thing they are effective at is persecuting my father. They twisted, contorted, and corrupted the criminal code to turn bookkeeping errors into finalies. They concocted new legal theories out of thin air. They imposed gag orders on my father because the last thing a defendant should be able to do is defend himself, right?

They punished him for merely speaking the truth. They say they hate Vladimir Putin, but it sure seems like they've spent a lot of time copying his playbook. In this country, we don't criminalize political differences. We debate them. We vote on them. But we don't make you choose between picking a party or picking a jail cell.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Usha Vance. It's safe to say that neither JD nor I expected to find ourselves in this position. But it's hard I wanted to imagine a more powerful example of the American dream, a boy from Middletown, Ohio. Katie, Katie, Katie, Katie, Katie raised by his grandmother through tough times, chosen to help lead our country through some of its greatest challenges. I am grateful to all of you for the trust you've placed in him and in our family. And with that, it is my great privilege to introduce my husband and the next vice President of the United States, JD Vance.

Why don't we liberate these United States? We're the ones who need it work. Let the The best of the world help us watch for change, and let's rebuild a merry first. Thank you.

Our highways and bridges are far and far. Who's blessed, who has been cursed?

There's things to be done all over the world, but let's rebuild a merry first.

Thank you. Thank you.

Please.

Wow.

Wow. First of all, aren't I like a guy?

Isn't she lovely? That's amazing. Greetings, Milwaukee, my fellow Americans and my fellow Republicans. My name is JD Vance from the great state of Ohio. Tonight... H-i-o. O-h-i-o. You guys, we're going to chill with the Ohio love. We're going to win Michigan, too, here. My friends, tonight is a night of hope, a celebration of what America once was, and with God's grace, what it will soon be again. Union. 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. But as we meet tonight, we cannot forget that this evening could have been so much different. Instead of a day of celebration, this could have been a day of heartache and morning. For the last eight years, President Trump has given everything he has to fight for the people of our country. He didn't need politics, but the country needed him. Now, prior to running for President, he was one of the most successful businessman in the world. He had everything anyone could ever in a life. And yet, instead of choosing the easy path, he chose to endure abuse, slander, and persecution.

And he did it because he loves this country. I want all Americans to go and watch the video of a would be assassin coming a quarter of an inch from taking his life. Consider the lies they he told you about Donald Trump, and then look at that photo of him, defiant, fist in the air. When Donald Trump rose to his feet in that Pennsylvania field, all of America stood with him. And what did he call us to do for our country? To fight. To fight for America. Even in his most perilous moment, we were on his mind. His instinct was for us, for our country, to call us to something higher, to something greater, to once again be citizens who ask what our country needs of us. Now, consider what they said. They said he was a tyrant. They said he must be stopped at all costs. But how did he respond? He called for national unity, for national calm, literally right after an assassin nearly took his life. He remembered the victims of the terrible attack, especially the brave Cory Compertori, who gave his life to protect his family. God bless him. And then President Trump flew to Milwaukee and got back to work.

Now, that's the man I've gotten to know personally over the last few years. He is tough, and he is, but he cares about people. He can stand defiant against an assassin one moment and call for national healing the next. He is a beloved father and grandfather, and of course, a once in a generation business leader. He's the man who is feared by America's adversaries. But two nights ago, and I'll share a moment, said good night to his two boys, told them he loved them, and made sure to give each of them a kiss on the cheek. I will say, Don and Eric squirmed the same way my four-year-old does when his daddy tries to give him a kiss on the cheek. Sorry, guys. He has all those things, but tonight we celebrate he is our once and future President of the United States of America. I want to respond to his call for unity myself. We have a big tent in this party on everything from national security to economic policy. But my message to you, my fellow Republicans, is we love this country and we are united to win. Now, I think our disagreements actually make us stronger.

That's what I've learned in my time in the United States Senate, where sometimes I persuade my colleagues, and sometimes they persuade me. And my message to my fellow Americans, those watching from across the country, is, shouldn't we be governed by a party that is unafraid to debate debate ideas and come to the best solution? That's the Republican Party of the next four years, united in our love for this country and committed to free speech and the open exchange of ideas. And so tonight, Mr. Chairman, I stand here humbled, and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude to say I officially accept your nomination to be vice President of the United States of America. Our movement is about single moms like mine who struggled with money and addiction but never gave up. And I'm proud to say that tonight my mom is here, 10 years clean and sober. I love you, mom. Now, Joe Biden has been a politician in Washington for longer than I've been alive, 39 years old. Kamala Harris is not much further behind. For For half a century, he's been the champion of every major policy initiative to make America weaker and poorer. And in four short years, Donald Trump reversed decades of betrayals inflicted by Joe Biden and the rest of the corrupt Washington insiders.

He created the greatest economy in history for workers. Really was amazing. There's this chart that shows worker wages, and they stagnated for pretty much my entire life until President Donald J. Trump came along. Workers' wages went through the roof. Months ago, I heard some young family member observe that their parents generation, the baby boomers, could afford to buy a home when they first entered the workforce. But I don't know this person observed if I'll ever be able to afford a home. The absurd cost of housing is the result of so many failures, and it reveals so much about what's broken in Washington. I can tell you exactly how it happened. Wall Street barons crashed the economy and American builders went out of business. As tradesmen scramble for jobs, houses stopped being built. The lack of good jobs, of course, led to stagnant wages. Then the Democrats flooded this country with millions of illegal aliens. Citizens had to compete with people who shouldn't even be here for precious housing. 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.

Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe So prices soared, dreams were shattered, and China and the cartels sent Fentanyl across the border, adding addiction to the heartache.

But ladies and gentlemen, that not the end of our story. We've heard about villains and their victims. I've talked a lot about that, but 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. We'll commit to the working man. One of the things that you hear people say sometimes is that America is an idea. To be clear, America was indeed founded on brilliant ideas like the rule of law and religious liberty, things written into the fabric of our Constitution and our nation. But America is not just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation. Now, it is part of that tradition, of course, that we welcome newcomers. But when we allow newcomers into our American family, we allow them on our terms. To the people of Middletown, Ohio, and all the forgotten communities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and every corner of our nation, I promise you this, I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from. Every single day for the next four years, when I walk into that White House to help President Trump, I will be doing it for you, for your family, for your future, and for this great country.

Thank you. God bless all of you, and God bless our great country. Well, let's start with the most important fact. There is nothing in American political history that says a vice president actually makes a difference come election day. People vote for president. You can scour the books, you can scour the data, and you will find no compelling case that any nominee for vice president ever has been the factor in making a difference come election day. However, they can hurt. He didn't do anything to hurt them tonight. He gave a very compelling speech. We can argue about the policy. That's what debates are about.

I don't think Trump picked him because he was a really great speaker, somebody who could liven up this room. He picked him because he had the the right message and the right biography and probably wasn't going to upstage him. I think he did probably all of those things tonight.

I mean, look, so JD Vance isn't going to be a Vegas act. That's okay. He needs to be vice president. He doesn't need to overshadow Donald Trump. I was listening.Mission accomplished. I was listening to the song they played when he finished, Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow. Now they got Bill Clinton's song, and increasingly, they have Bill Clinton's voters. The people who are gravitating to this ticket are the same people who voted that working class base voted for Bill Clinton in the '90s. They largely gravitated to the Republicans over cultural issues, and now Vance and Trump are going to give him the economic agenda to go with it. I think he put a very friendly face on a pretty disturbing agenda. The good part of his agenda, I could tell him, guess what? You don't have to run for vice president for the good part of your agenda. You can just vote for Joe Biden. He's talking about a supply chains. Joe Biden passed a bill called the Chipsack that takes care of that and moves in the right direction without He's talking about his support. He's talking about not buying energy from people that don't like us.

We're a net energy exporter. He's talking about manufacturing. The manufacturing peak under Biden is higher than the peak under Trump. If he wants his policy agenda, he can just stay home and vote for Joe Biden because we're doing that.

Joe Biden might not be the candidate by tomorrow morning.

That's not the problem with the speech. The problem with the speech is he's putting a very friendly face on a very selfish and narrow vision of what America is supposed to be. And unlike Trump, who is an intuitive, impulsive, instinctive nationalist, this is an ideological nationalist. That is a very different strain of the virus. He can sell this stuff to Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and normal people, but his vision will make America smaller, more narrow, and weaker, and that's the problem. But what Dana said earlier is actually true. His economic agenda sounded just like Bernie Sanders. Not Bill Clinton, but Bernie Sanders. And it's. The problem is that Donald Trump's program as President was very much a Wall Street-oriented program. It wasn't a populist agenda.