July 18, 2024 • 42 mins
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI A M six forty.
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Why don't oliver These United States,we're the ones who lead in the
world or stopped the world. Haveus watching, and let's remails married first,
Thank you, thing course, there'sthings to be the war. Senator
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jd. Vance is now taking astage. Thank you, thank you,
please, wow wow yeah. Firstof all, all right, I like
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a guy, isn't she lovely?Amazing? Greetings Milwaukee, my fellow Americans
and my fellow Republicans. My nameis JD. Vance from the great State
of Ohio. Tonight wag I ohoh wage, I oh you guys,
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we gotta We're gonna chill with theOhio love. We've gotta win Michigan too.
Here. So, my friends,tonight is a night of hope,
a celebration of what America once wasand, with God's grace, what it
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will soon be again. And itis 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 meettonight, we cannot forget that this evening
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could have been so much different.Instead of a day of celebrations, this
could have been a day of heartacheand mourning. For the last eight years,
President Trump has given everything he hasto fight for the people of our
country. He didn't need politics,but the country needed him, did it
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now? Prior running for president,he was one of the most successful businessmen
in the world. He had everythinganyone could ever want in a life.
And yet instead of choosing the easypath, he chose to endure abuse,
slander, and persecution. And hedid it because he loves this country.
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I want all Americans to go andwatch the video of a would be assassin
coming a quarter of an inch fromtaking his life. Consider the lies they
told you about Donald Trump, andthen look at that photo of him defiant,
fist in the air. When DonaldTrump rose to his feet and that
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Pennsylvania Field, all of America stoodwith him. And what did he call
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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 againbe citizens. Who asked what our country
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needs of us? Now consider whatthey said, they said he was a
tyrant. They said he must bestopped at all costs. But how did
he respond? He called for nationalunity, for national calm, literally right
after an assassin nearly took his life. He remembered the victims of the terrible
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attack, especially the brave Corey Comparatorywho gave his life to protect his family.
God bless him. And then PresidentTrump flew to Milwaukee and got back
to work. Now that's the manI've gotten to know personally over the last
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few years. He is tough,and he is but he cares about people.
He can stand defiant against an assassinone moment and call for national healing
the next. He is a belovedfather 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, in Sarah moment said good night to
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his two boys, told him heloved them, and made sure to give
each of them a kiss on thecheek. And I will say, Don
and Eric squirmed the same way myfour year old does when his daddy tries
to give him a kiss on thecheek. Sorry, guys, he has
all those things. But tonight wecelebrate he is our once and future president
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of the United States of America.Now I want to respond to his call
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for unity myself. We have abig tent in this party on everything from
national security to economic policy. Butmy message to you, my fellow Republicans,
is we love this country and weare united to win. Right now,
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I think our disagreements actually make usstronger. That's what I've learned in
my time the United States Senate,where sometimes I persuade my colleagues and sometimes
they persuade me. And my messageto my fellow Americans those watching from across
the country is shouldn't we be governedby a party that is unafraid to debate
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ideas and come to the best solution. That's the Republican Party of the next
four years, united in our lovefor this country and committed to free speech
and the open exchange of ideas.And so tonight, mister Chairman, I
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stand here humbled, and I'm overwhelmedwith gratitude to say I officially accept your
nomination to be Vice President of theUnited States of America. Thank you.
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Now. Never in my wildest imaginationcould I have believed that I'd be standing
here tonight. I grew up inMiddletown, Ohio, a small town where
people spoke their minds, built withtheir hands, and loved their God,
their family, their community, andtheir country with their whole hearts. But
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it was also a place that hadbeen cast aside and forgotten by America's ruling
class. In Washington, when Iwas in the fourth grade, a career
politician by the name of Joe Bidensupported NAFTA, a bad trade deal that
sent countless good jobs to Mexico.When I was a sophomore in high school,
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that same career politician named Joe Bidengave China a sweetheart trade deal that
destroyed even more good American middle classmanufacturing jobs. When I was a senior
at high school, that same JoeBiden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq.
And at each step of the way, in small towns like mine in Ohio,
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or next door in Pennsylvania or Michiganand states all across our country,
jobs were sent overseas and our childrenwere sent to war. And I agree,
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And somehow, a real estate developerfrom New York City by the name
of Donald J. Trump was righton all of these issues. While Biden
was wrong. President Trump knew eventhen that we needed leaders who would put
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America first. Now, thanks tothese policies that Biden another out of touch
politicians in Washington gave us, ourcountry was flooded with cheap Chinese goods,
with cheap foreign labor, and inthe decades to come, deadly Chinese fintannol.
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Joe Biden screwed up, and mycommunity paid the price. Now,
I was lucky, despite the closingfactories and the growing addiction in towns like
mine, in my life, Ihad a guardian angel by my side.
She was an old woman who couldbarely walk, but she was tough as
nails. I called her Mammall,the name we Hillbillies gave to our grandmothers.
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Ma'm all raised me as her ownexcuse me, Mamma raised me as
my mother struggled with addiction. Mammawas in so many ways a woman of
contradiction. She loved the lord,ladies and gentlemen. She was a woman
of very deep Christian faith, butshe also loved the F word. I'm
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not kidding. She could make asailor blush. Now. She once told
me, when she found out thatI was spending too much time with a
local kid who is known for dealingdrugs, that if I ever hung out
with that kid again, she wouldrun him over with her car. That's
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true, and she said, JD. No one will ever find out about
it. You're listening to Ohio SenatorJD. Vance as he accepts the nomination
for vice president on KFI AM SINXforty Los Angeles and Orange County. Now,
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thanks to that MANMLL, things workedout for me. After nine to
eleven, I did what thousands ofother young men my age did in that
time of soaring patriotism and love ofcountry. I enlisted in the United States
Marines semper five of my fellow Marines. I loved the Marines. After four
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years, I went to the OhioState University. I'm sorry, Michigan,
I had to get that in there. Come on, come on, we've
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had enough political violence. Let's now. After Ohio State, I went to
a law school where I met mybeautiful wife, and then I started businesses
to create jobs in the kind ofplaces that I grew up in. Now,
my work taught me that there isstill so much talent and grit in
the American heartland. There really is. But for these places to thrive,
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my friends, we need a leaderwho fights for the people who built this
country. We need a leader who'snot in the pocket of big business but
answers to the working man, unionand non union alike. A leader who
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won't sell out to multinational corporations butwill stand up for American companies and American
industry. A leader who rejects JoeBiden and Kamala Harris's green news scam and
fights to bring back our great Americanfactories. We need President Donald J.
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Trump. Some people tell me I'velived the American dream, and of course
they're right, and I'm so gratefulfor it. But the American dream that
always counted most was not starting abusiness, or becoming a senator, or
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even being here with you find people, though it's pretty awesome, my most
important American dream was becoming a goodhusband and a good dad, of being
able to give. I wanted togive my kids the things that I didn't
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have when I was growing up.And that's the accomplishment that I'm proud of.
Stuff that Tonight. I'm joined bymy beautiful wife, Usha, an
incredible lawyer and a better mom,and our three beautiful kids, Ewan who's
seven, Vek who's four, andMirabelle who's two. Now they're back at
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the hotel, and kids, ifyou're watching, Daddy loves you very much,
but get your butts in bed.It's ten o'clock. But my friends,
things did not work out well fora lot of kids I grew up
with. Every now and then Iwill get a call from a relative back
home who asks, did you knowso and so? And I'll remember a
face from years ago, and thenI'll hear they died of an overdose.
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As always, America's ruling class wrotethe checks. Communities like mine paid the
price for decades that divide between thefew with their power and comfort in Washington
and the rest of US. USonly widened from Iraq to Afghanistan, from
the financial crisis to the Great Recession, from open borders to stagnating wages.
The people who govern this country havefailed and failed again. That is,
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of course, until a guy namedDonald J. Trump came along. President
Trump represents America's last best hope torestore what if lost, may never be
found again. A country where aworking class boy born far from the halls
of power can stand on this stageas the next Vice President of the United
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States of America. But my fellowAmericans here in this stage and watching at
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home, this moment is not aboutme. It's about all of us,
and it's about who we're fighting for. It's about the autoworker in Michigan wondering
why out of touch politicians are destroyingtheir jobs. It's about the factory worker
in Wisconsin who makes things with theirhands and is proud of American craftsmanship.
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It's about the energy worker in Pennsylvaniaand Ohio who doesn't understand why Joe Biden
is willing to buy energy from tinpotdictators across the world when he could buy
it from his own citizens right herein our own country. You guys are
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a great crowd. Wow. Andit's about our movement is about single moms
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like mine who struggled with money andaddiction but never gave up. And I'm
proud to say that tonight my momis here, ten years clean and sober.
I love your mom, and youknow, Mom, I was thinking
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it'll be ten years officially in Januaryof twenty twenty five, and if President
Trump's okay with it, let's havethe celebration in the White House and our
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movement. Ladies and gentlemen, it'sabout grandparents all across this country who are
living on Social Security and raising grandchildrenthey didn't expect to raise. And while
we're on the topic of grandparents,let me tell you another mammal story.
And my mamma died shortly before Ileft for Iraq in two thousand and five,
and when we went through things,we found nineteen loaded handguns. They
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were now. The thing is thatthey were stashed all over her house,
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under her bed, in her closet, in the silverware drawer, and we
wondered what was going on, andit occurred to us that towards the end
of her life, Mamma couldn't getaround so well. And so this frail
old woman made sure that no matterwhere she was, she was with an
arm's length of whatever she needed toprotect her family. That's who we fight
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for. That's American spirit. JoeBiden has been a politician in Washington for
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longer than I've been alive, thirtynine years old. Kamala Harris is not
much further behind. For half acentury, he's been the champion of every
major policy initiative to make America weakerand poorer, and in four short years,
Donald Trump reversed decades of betrayals inflictedby Joe Biden and the rest of
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the corrupt Washington insiders. He createdthe greatest economy in history for workers.
Really was amazing. There's this chartthat shows worker wages, and they stagnated
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for pretty much my entire life untilPresident Donald J. Trump came along.
Workers' wages went through the roof.And just imagine what he's going to do
when we give him four more years. Months ago, I heard some young
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family member observe that their parents' generation, the baby Boomers, could afford to
buy a home when they first enteredthe workforce. But I don't know this
person observed if I'll ever be ableto afford a home. The absurd cost
of housing is the result of somany failures, and it reveals so much
about what's broken in Washington. Ican tell you exactly how it happened.
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Wall Street barons crashed the economy andAmerican builders went out of business. As
tradesmen scrambled for jobs, houses stoppedbeing built. The lack of good jobs,
of course, led to stagnant wages, and then the Democrats flooded this
country with millions of illegal aliens,so citizens had to compete with people who
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shouldn't even be here for precious housing. Joe Biden's inflation crisis, my friends,
is really an affordability crisis. Andmany of the people that I grew
up with can't afford to pay morefor groceries, more for gas, more
for rent, And that's exactly whatJoe Biden's economy has given them. So
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prices, sword dreams were shattered,and China and the cartel fittanel across the
border, adding addiction to the heartache. But ladies and gentlemen, that is
not the end of our story.We've heard about villains and they're victims.
I've talked a lot about that.But let me tell you about the future.
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President Trump's vision is so simple andyet so powerful. We're done,
ladies and gentlemen, catering to WallStreet. We'll commit to the working man.
We're done importing foreign labor. We'regonna fight for American citizens and their
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good jobs and they're good wages.We're done by an energy from countries that
hate us. We're gonna get itright here from American workers in Pennsylvania and
Ohio and across the country. We'redone sacrificing supply chains to unlimited global trade,
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and we're gonna stamp more and moreproducts with that beautiful label made in
the USA. We're gonna build factoriesagain, put people to work making real
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products for American families, made withthe hands of American workers. Together,
we will protect the wages of Americanworkers and stop the Chinese Communist Party from
building their middle class on the backsof American citizens. Together, we will
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make sure our allies share in theburden of securing world peace. No more
free rides for nations that betray thegenerosity of the American taxpayer. Together,
we will send our kids to waronly when we must. But as President
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Trump showed with the elimination of ISISand so much more, or when we
punch, we're gonna punch hard.Together, we will put the citizens of
America first, whatever the color oftheir skin. We will, in short,
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make America great again. Now,one of the things that you hear
people say sometimes is that America isan idea. And to be clear,
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America was indeed founded on brilliant ideaslike the rule of law and religious liberty,
things written into the fabric of ourconstitution and our nation. But America
is not just an idea. Itis a group of people with a shared
history and a common future. Itis, in short, a nation.
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Now it is part of that tradition, of course, that we welcome newcomers.
But when we allow newcomers into ourAmerican family, we allow them on
our terms. That's the way wepreserve the continuity of this project from two
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hundred and fifty years past to hopefullytwo hundred and fifty years in the future.
And let me illustrate this with astory, if I may. I'm
of course married to the daughter ofSouth Asian immigrants to this country. Incredible
people, people who genuinely have enrichedthis country in so many ways. And
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of course I'm biased because I lovemy wife and her family. But it's
true now when I propose to mywife, we were in law school and
I said, honey, I comewith one hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth
of law school and a cemetery ploton a mountain side in eastern Kentucky.
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And I guess, standing here tonight, it's just gotten weirder and weirder.
Honey, but that's what she wasgetting. Now. That cemetery plot in
eastern Kentucky is near my family's ancestralhome, and like a lot of people,
we came from the mountains of Appalachiainto the factories of Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, and Wisconsin. Now that'sKentucky coal Country, one of the
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ten. Now it's one of theten poorest counties in the entire United States
of America. They are very hardworking people, and they're very good people.
They're the kind of people who wouldgive you the shirt off their back,
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even if they can't afford enough toeat. And our media calls them
privileged and looks down on them.But they love this country not only because
it's a good idea, but becausein their bones they know that this is
their home and it will be theirchildren's home, and they would die fighting
to protect it. That is thesource of America's greatness. As a United
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States Senator, I get to representmillions of people in the great state of
Ohio with similar stories, and itis the great honor of my life.
Now in that cemetery, there arepeople who are born around the time of
the Civil War, and if asI hope my wife and I are eventually
laid to rest there and our kidsfollow us. There will be seven generations
just in that small mountain cemetery plotin eastern Kentucky, seven generations of people
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who have fought for this country,who have built this country, who've made
things in this country, and whowould fight and die to protect this country
if they were asked to. Now, now, that's not just an idea,
my friends, that's not just aset of principle, even though the
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ideas and the principles are great.That is a homeland. That is our
homeland. People will not fight forabstractions, but they will fight for their
home. And if this movement ofours is going to succeed, and if
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this country is going to thrive,our leaders have to remember that America is
a nation and its citizens deserve leaderswho put its interests first. Now we
won't agree on every issue, ofcourse, not even in this room.
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We may disagree from time to timeabout how best to reinvigorate American industry and
renew American family. That's fine,in fact, it's more than fine.
It's good. But never forget thatthe reason why this United Republican Party exists
Why we do this, why wecare about those great ideas and that great
history, is that we want thisnation to thrive for centuries to come.
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Now, eventually in that mountain cemetery, my children will lay me to rest,
and when they do, I wouldlike them to know that, thanks
to the work of this Republican Party, the United States of America strong and
as proud and as great as ever. That is who we serve, my
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friends, that is who we fightfor. And the only thing that we
need to do right now, themost important thing that we can do for
those people, for that American nationthat we all love, is to reelect
Donald J. Trump President of theUnited States. Mister President, I will
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never take for granted the trust youhave put in me, and what an
honor it is to help achieve theextraordinary vision that you have for this country.
Now, I pledge to every American, no matter your party, I
will give you everything I have toserve you and to make this country a
place where every dream you have foryourself, your family, and your country
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will be possible once again. AndI promise you one more thing. To
the people of Middletown, Ohio andall the forgotten communities in Michigan, Wisconsin,
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Pennsylvania, and Ohio and every cornerof our nation. I promise you
this. I will be a vicepresident who never forgets where he came from,
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and every single day for the nextfour 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 ofyou, and God bless our great country.
You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty.
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That was Ohio Senator jd Vance whoofficially accepted the nomination to be vice
President of the United States on theticket with former President Donald Trump. If
you missed a lot of his speech, we will have it up as part
of the podcast with Later mo Kellyand also be on KFIAM six forty dot
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com. But to quickly recap itwas a message which was heavy on family.
He detailed his family history and generationsof his family, his connection to
the military. He told a lotof stories and offered some quips about past
relatives like his grandmother. He madeit a central focus of his message.
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I would say Central America states likeOhio, the Midwest, how he would
argue that historically the Democrats have overlookedand not given do attention to. He
went over some i'll say economic statsthat I'm not going to agree with,
but I'll let the fact checkers handlethat tomorrow. But you could tell that
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his message was squarely within the parametersof being a vice president. I get
the sense that he wasn't trying toshine too brightly. He kept the message
for the most part focused on DonaldTrump, and as a vice presidential candidate,
that's what you're supposed to do.We'll see whether the report party gets
a bump in fundraising tonight. They'retwo nights with each political convention you're looking
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at You're looking at whether there's afundraising bump after the vice presidential candidate speaks,
and also you're looking at the fundraisingbump and also polling bump after the
presidential candidate speaks. You can thensee how well the message and the ticket
is resonating with America, whether thebase is energized, and whether they can
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develop even more momentum given the pastfew weeks to use going on the campaign
trail. Of course, this isagainst the backdrop of the news that President
Joe Biden has announced that he's contractedCOVID again, which is would obviously limit
his speaking engagements at least for thenext few days, and later on in
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the show, we'll talk about howCongressman Adam Schiff has come out publicly and
asked President Biden to step aside forsomeone else to become the Democratic nominee.
All of this ebbs and flows thisweek is for the Republicans. They will
have just about all of the focusand media scrutiny on them, and I
mean that in a good way,because there's really no opposing message. If
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you look at the history of politicalcampaigns, it's kind of understood. These
are unwritten rules where if you're notthe party who is having the convention,
you lay low to a certain degree. You'll you'll have your speeches, but
you don't have the type of advertisingblitz that you would normally see during the
campaign. And of course, becauseof the events of Saturday, I think
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the Democrats are even more muted asthey try to recalibrate what type of message
they plan to move forward with.There are two main issues, and we'll
get into that in depth in abit. There are two main issues confronting
the Democrats. You have to decidewhether Joe Biden is going to be the
nominee first and foremost, and thenyou have to define what type of messaging
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you're going to use. How muchof an attack message will it be,
how aggressive will it be, orwill you focus on just a positive message
which is directed only at Democratic voters, independence and moderates. But the Democrats
will have some time because this isdowntime for them, which is true for
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any political convention if you are notthe party holding the convention. This is
the time where they don't have tomake ground. They can, i'll say,
hunker down and go into the proverbialbasement, as it were, and
then reassess their chances and their strategy. They were listening very closely to the
speech. I'm quite sure there willbe some messaging tomorrow or maybe even later
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tonight, contradicting what Senator Vance,vice presidential candidate Vance said, probably calling
out some of the things which arenot factually accurate. That's just how it's
done. And then tomorrow we'll seehow the rest of the nation responded,
and also we'll see how Republican leaningvoters or moderate voters undecided voters, how
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they're feeling about the addition of Vanceto the ticket and whether that moves the
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Why don't oliver These United States,we're the ones who lead in the
world or stopped the world. Haveus watching, and let's remails married first,
Thank you, thing course, there'sthings to be the war. Senator
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jd. Vance is now taking astage. Thank you, thank you,
please, wow wow yeah. Firstof all, all right, I like
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a guy, isn't she lovely?Amazing? Greetings Milwaukee, my fellow Americans
and my fellow Republicans. My nameis JD. Vance from the great State
of Ohio. Tonight wag I ohoh wage, I oh you guys,
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we gotta We're gonna chill with theOhio love. We've gotta win Michigan too.
Here. So, my friends,tonight is a night of hope,
a celebration of what America once wasand, with God's grace, what it
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will soon be again. And itis 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 meettonight, we cannot forget that this evening
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could have been so much different.Instead of a day of celebrations, this
could have been a day of heartacheand mourning. For the last eight years,
President Trump has given everything he hasto fight for the people of our
country. He didn't need politics,but the country needed him, did it
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now? Prior running for president,he was one of the most successful businessmen
in the world. He had everythinganyone could ever want in a life.
And yet instead of choosing the easypath, he chose to endure abuse,
slander, and persecution. And hedid it because he loves this country.
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I want all Americans to go andwatch the video of a would be assassin
coming a quarter of an inch fromtaking his life. Consider the lies they
told you about Donald Trump, andthen look at that photo of him defiant,
fist in the air. When DonaldTrump rose to his feet and that
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Pennsylvania Field, all of America stoodwith him. And what did he call
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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 againbe citizens. Who asked what our country
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needs of us? Now consider whatthey said, they said he was a
tyrant. They said he must bestopped at all costs. But how did
he respond? He called for nationalunity, for national calm, literally right
after an assassin nearly took his life. He remembered the victims of the terrible
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attack, especially the brave Corey Comparatorywho gave his life to protect his family.
God bless him. And then PresidentTrump flew to Milwaukee and got back
to work. Now that's the manI've gotten to know personally over the last
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few years. He is tough,and he is but he cares about people.
He can stand defiant against an assassinone moment and call for national healing
the next. He is a belovedfather 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, in Sarah moment said good night to
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his two boys, told him heloved them, and made sure to give
each of them a kiss on thecheek. And I will say, Don
and Eric squirmed the same way myfour year old does when his daddy tries
to give him a kiss on thecheek. Sorry, guys, he has
all those things. But tonight wecelebrate he is our once and future president
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of the United States of America.Now I want to respond to his call
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for unity myself. We have abig tent in this party on everything from
national security to economic policy. Butmy message to you, my fellow Republicans,
is we love this country and weare united to win. Right now,
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I think our disagreements actually make usstronger. That's what I've learned in
my time the United States Senate,where sometimes I persuade my colleagues and sometimes
they persuade me. And my messageto my fellow Americans those watching from across
the country is shouldn't we be governedby a party that is unafraid to debate
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ideas and come to the best solution. That's the Republican Party of the next
four years, united in our lovefor this country and committed to free speech
and the open exchange of ideas.And so tonight, mister Chairman, I
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stand here humbled, and I'm overwhelmedwith gratitude to say I officially accept your
nomination to be Vice President of theUnited States of America. Thank you.
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Now. Never in my wildest imaginationcould I have believed that I'd be standing
here tonight. I grew up inMiddletown, Ohio, a small town where
people spoke their minds, built withtheir hands, and loved their God,
their family, their community, andtheir country with their whole hearts. But
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it was also a place that hadbeen cast aside and forgotten by America's ruling
class. In Washington, when Iwas in the fourth grade, a career
politician by the name of Joe Bidensupported NAFTA, a bad trade deal that
sent countless good jobs to Mexico.When I was a sophomore in high school,
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that same career politician named Joe Bidengave China a sweetheart trade deal that
destroyed even more good American middle classmanufacturing jobs. When I was a senior
at high school, that same JoeBiden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq.
And at each step of the way, in small towns like mine in Ohio,
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or next door in Pennsylvania or Michiganand states all across our country,
jobs were sent overseas and our childrenwere sent to war. And I agree,
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And somehow, a real estate developerfrom New York City by the name
of Donald J. Trump was righton all of these issues. While Biden
was wrong. President Trump knew eventhen that we needed leaders who would put
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America first. Now, thanks tothese policies that Biden another out of touch
politicians in Washington gave us, ourcountry was flooded with cheap Chinese goods,
with cheap foreign labor, and inthe decades to come, deadly Chinese fintannol.
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Joe Biden screwed up, and mycommunity paid the price. Now,
I was lucky, despite the closingfactories and the growing addiction in towns like
mine, in my life, Ihad a guardian angel by my side.
She was an old woman who couldbarely walk, but she was tough as
nails. I called her Mammall,the name we Hillbillies gave to our grandmothers.
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Ma'm all raised me as her ownexcuse me, Mamma raised me as
my mother struggled with addiction. Mammawas in so many ways a woman of
contradiction. She loved the lord,ladies and gentlemen. She was a woman
of very deep Christian faith, butshe also loved the F word. I'm
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not kidding. She could make asailor blush. Now. She once told
me, when she found out thatI was spending too much time with a
local kid who is known for dealingdrugs, that if I ever hung out
with that kid again, she wouldrun him over with her car. That's
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true, and she said, JD. No one will ever find out about
it. You're listening to Ohio SenatorJD. Vance as he accepts the nomination
for vice president on KFI AM SINXforty Los Angeles and Orange County. Now,
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thanks to that MANMLL, things workedout for me. After nine to
eleven, I did what thousands ofother young men my age did in that
time of soaring patriotism and love ofcountry. I enlisted in the United States
Marines semper five of my fellow Marines. I loved the Marines. After four
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years, I went to the OhioState University. I'm sorry, Michigan,
I had to get that in there. Come on, come on, we've
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had enough political violence. Let's now. After Ohio State, I went to
a law school where I met mybeautiful wife, and then I started businesses
to create jobs in the kind ofplaces that I grew up in. Now,
my work taught me that there isstill so much talent and grit in
the American heartland. There really is. But for these places to thrive,
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my friends, we need a leaderwho fights for the people who built this
country. We need a leader who'snot in the pocket of big business but
answers to the working man, unionand non union alike. A leader who
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won't sell out to multinational corporations butwill stand up for American companies and American
industry. A leader who rejects JoeBiden and Kamala Harris's green news scam and
fights to bring back our great Americanfactories. We need President Donald J.
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Trump. Some people tell me I'velived the American dream, and of course
they're right, and I'm so gratefulfor it. But the American dream that
always counted most was not starting abusiness, or becoming a senator, or
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even being here with you find people, though it's pretty awesome, my most
important American dream was becoming a goodhusband and a good dad, of being
able to give. I wanted togive my kids the things that I didn't
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have when I was growing up.And that's the accomplishment that I'm proud of.
Stuff that Tonight. I'm joined bymy beautiful wife, Usha, an
incredible lawyer and a better mom,and our three beautiful kids, Ewan who's
seven, Vek who's four, andMirabelle who's two. Now they're back at
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the hotel, and kids, ifyou're watching, Daddy loves you very much,
but get your butts in bed.It's ten o'clock. But my friends,
things did not work out well fora lot of kids I grew up
with. Every now and then Iwill get a call from a relative back
home who asks, did you knowso and so? And I'll remember a
face from years ago, and thenI'll hear they died of an overdose.
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As always, America's ruling class wrotethe checks. Communities like mine paid the
price for decades that divide between thefew with their power and comfort in Washington
and the rest of US. USonly widened from Iraq to Afghanistan, from
the financial crisis to the Great Recession, from open borders to stagnating wages.
The people who govern this country havefailed and failed again. That is,
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of course, until a guy namedDonald J. Trump came along. President
Trump represents America's last best hope torestore what if lost, may never be
found again. A country where aworking class boy born far from the halls
of power can stand on this stageas the next Vice President of the United
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States of America. But my fellowAmericans here in this stage and watching at
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home, this moment is not aboutme. It's about all of us,
and it's about who we're fighting for. It's about the autoworker in Michigan wondering
why out of touch politicians are destroyingtheir jobs. It's about the factory worker
in Wisconsin who makes things with theirhands and is proud of American craftsmanship.
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It's about the energy worker in Pennsylvaniaand Ohio who doesn't understand why Joe Biden
is willing to buy energy from tinpotdictators across the world when he could buy
it from his own citizens right herein our own country. You guys are
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a great crowd. Wow. Andit's about our movement is about single moms
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like mine who struggled with money andaddiction but never gave up. And I'm
proud to say that tonight my momis here, ten years clean and sober.
I love your mom, and youknow, Mom, I was thinking
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it'll be ten years officially in Januaryof twenty twenty five, and if President
Trump's okay with it, let's havethe celebration in the White House and our
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movement. Ladies and gentlemen, it'sabout grandparents all across this country who are
living on Social Security and raising grandchildrenthey didn't expect to raise. And while
we're on the topic of grandparents,let me tell you another mammal story.
And my mamma died shortly before Ileft for Iraq in two thousand and five,
and when we went through things,we found nineteen loaded handguns. They
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were now. The thing is thatthey were stashed all over her house,
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under her bed, in her closet, in the silverware drawer, and we
wondered what was going on, andit occurred to us that towards the end
of her life, Mamma couldn't getaround so well. And so this frail
old woman made sure that no matterwhere she was, she was with an
arm's length of whatever she needed toprotect her family. That's who we fight
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for. That's American spirit. JoeBiden has been a politician in Washington for
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longer than I've been alive, thirtynine years old. Kamala Harris is not
much further behind. For half acentury, he's been the champion of every
major policy initiative to make America weakerand poorer, and in four short years,
Donald Trump reversed decades of betrayals inflictedby Joe Biden and the rest of
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the corrupt Washington insiders. He createdthe greatest economy in history for workers.
Really was amazing. There's this chartthat shows worker wages, and they stagnated
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for pretty much my entire life untilPresident Donald J. Trump came along.
Workers' wages went through the roof.And just imagine what he's going to do
when we give him four more years. Months ago, I heard some young
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family member observe that their parents' generation, the baby Boomers, could afford to
buy a home when they first enteredthe workforce. But I don't know this
person observed if I'll ever be ableto afford a home. The absurd cost
of housing is the result of somany failures, and it reveals so much
about what's broken in Washington. Ican tell you exactly how it happened.
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Wall Street barons crashed the economy andAmerican builders went out of business. As
tradesmen scrambled for jobs, houses stoppedbeing built. The lack of good jobs,
of course, led to stagnant wages, and then the Democrats flooded this
country with millions of illegal aliens,so citizens had to compete with people who
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shouldn't even be here for precious housing. Joe Biden's inflation crisis, my friends,
is really an affordability crisis. Andmany of the people that I grew
up with can't afford to pay morefor groceries, more for gas, more
for rent, And that's exactly whatJoe Biden's economy has given them. So
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prices, sword dreams were shattered,and China and the cartel fittanel across the
border, adding addiction to the heartache. But ladies and gentlemen, that is
not the end of our story.We've heard about villains and they're victims.
I've talked a lot about that.But let me tell you about the future.
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President Trump's vision is so simple andyet so powerful. We're done,
ladies and gentlemen, catering to WallStreet. We'll commit to the working man.
We're done importing foreign labor. We'regonna fight for American citizens and their
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good jobs and they're good wages.We're done by an energy from countries that
hate us. We're gonna get itright here from American workers in Pennsylvania and
Ohio and across the country. We'redone sacrificing supply chains to unlimited global trade,
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and we're gonna stamp more and moreproducts with that beautiful label made in
the USA. We're gonna build factoriesagain, put people to work making real
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products for American families, made withthe hands of American workers. Together,
we will protect the wages of Americanworkers and stop the Chinese Communist Party from
building their middle class on the backsof American citizens. Together, we will
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make sure our allies share in theburden of securing world peace. No more
free rides for nations that betray thegenerosity of the American taxpayer. Together,
we will send our kids to waronly when we must. But as President
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Trump showed with the elimination of ISISand so much more, or when we
punch, we're gonna punch hard.Together, we will put the citizens of
America first, whatever the color oftheir skin. We will, in short,
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make America great again. Now,one of the things that you hear
people say sometimes is that America isan idea. And to be clear,
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America was indeed founded on brilliant ideaslike the rule of law and religious liberty,
things written into the fabric of ourconstitution and our nation. But America
is not just an idea. Itis a group of people with a shared
history and a common future. Itis, in short, a nation.
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Now it is part of that tradition, of course, that we welcome newcomers.
But when we allow newcomers into ourAmerican family, we allow them on
our terms. That's the way wepreserve the continuity of this project from two
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hundred and fifty years past to hopefullytwo hundred and fifty years in the future.
And let me illustrate this with astory, if I may. I'm
of course married to the daughter ofSouth Asian immigrants to this country. Incredible
people, people who genuinely have enrichedthis country in so many ways. And
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of course I'm biased because I lovemy wife and her family. But it's
true now when I propose to mywife, we were in law school and
I said, honey, I comewith one hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth
of law school and a cemetery ploton a mountain side in eastern Kentucky.
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And I guess, standing here tonight, it's just gotten weirder and weirder.
Honey, but that's what she wasgetting. Now. That cemetery plot in
eastern Kentucky is near my family's ancestralhome, and like a lot of people,
we came from the mountains of Appalachiainto the factories of Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, and Wisconsin. Now that'sKentucky coal Country, one of the
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ten. Now it's one of theten poorest counties in the entire United States
of America. They are very hardworking people, and they're very good people.
They're the kind of people who wouldgive you the shirt off their back,
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even if they can't afford enough toeat. And our media calls them
privileged and looks down on them.But they love this country not only because
it's a good idea, but becausein their bones they know that this is
their home and it will be theirchildren's home, and they would die fighting
to protect it. That is thesource of America's greatness. As a United
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States Senator, I get to representmillions of people in the great state of
Ohio with similar stories, and itis the great honor of my life.
Now in that cemetery, there arepeople who are born around the time of
the Civil War, and if asI hope my wife and I are eventually
laid to rest there and our kidsfollow us. There will be seven generations
just in that small mountain cemetery plotin eastern Kentucky, seven generations of people
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who have fought for this country,who have built this country, who've made
things in this country, and whowould fight and die to protect this country
if they were asked to. Now, now, that's not just an idea,
my friends, that's not just aset of principle, even though the
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ideas and the principles are great.That is a homeland. That is our
homeland. People will not fight forabstractions, but they will fight for their
home. And if this movement ofours is going to succeed, and if
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this country is going to thrive,our leaders have to remember that America is
a nation and its citizens deserve leaderswho put its interests first. Now we
won't agree on every issue, ofcourse, not even in this room.
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We may disagree from time to timeabout how best to reinvigorate American industry and
renew American family. That's fine,in fact, it's more than fine.
It's good. But never forget thatthe reason why this United Republican Party exists
Why we do this, why wecare about those great ideas and that great
history, is that we want thisnation to thrive for centuries to come.
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Now, eventually in that mountain cemetery, my children will lay me to rest,
and when they do, I wouldlike them to know that, thanks
to the work of this Republican Party, the United States of America strong and
as proud and as great as ever. That is who we serve, my
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friends, that is who we fightfor. And the only thing that we
need to do right now, themost important thing that we can do for
those people, for that American nationthat we all love, is to reelect
Donald J. Trump President of theUnited States. Mister President, I will
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never take for granted the trust youhave put in me, and what an
honor it is to help achieve theextraordinary vision that you have for this country.
Now, I pledge to every American, no matter your party, I
will give you everything I have toserve you and to make this country a
place where every dream you have foryourself, your family, and your country
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will be possible once again. AndI promise you one more thing. To
the people of Middletown, Ohio andall the forgotten communities in Michigan, Wisconsin,
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Pennsylvania, and Ohio and every cornerof our nation. I promise you
this. I will be a vicepresident who never forgets where he came from,
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and every single day for the nextfour 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 ofyou, and God bless our great country.
You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty.
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That was Ohio Senator jd Vance whoofficially accepted the nomination to be vice
President of the United States on theticket with former President Donald Trump. If
you missed a lot of his speech, we will have it up as part
of the podcast with Later mo Kellyand also be on KFIAM six forty dot
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com. But to quickly recap itwas a message which was heavy on family.
He detailed his family history and generationsof his family, his connection to
the military. He told a lotof stories and offered some quips about past
relatives like his grandmother. He madeit a central focus of his message.
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I would say Central America states likeOhio, the Midwest, how he would
argue that historically the Democrats have overlookedand not given do attention to. He
went over some i'll say economic statsthat I'm not going to agree with,
but I'll let the fact checkers handlethat tomorrow. But you could tell that
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his message was squarely within the parametersof being a vice president. I get
the sense that he wasn't trying toshine too brightly. He kept the message
for the most part focused on DonaldTrump, and as a vice presidential candidate,
that's what you're supposed to do.We'll see whether the report party gets
a bump in fundraising tonight. They'retwo nights with each political convention you're looking
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at You're looking at whether there's afundraising bump after the vice presidential candidate speaks,
and also you're looking at the fundraisingbump and also polling bump after the
presidential candidate speaks. You can thensee how well the message and the ticket
is resonating with America, whether thebase is energized, and whether they can
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develop even more momentum given the pastfew weeks to use going on the campaign
trail. Of course, this isagainst the backdrop of the news that President
Joe Biden has announced that he's contractedCOVID again, which is would obviously limit
his speaking engagements at least for thenext few days, and later on in
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the show, we'll talk about howCongressman Adam Schiff has come out publicly and
asked President Biden to step aside forsomeone else to become the Democratic nominee.
All of this ebbs and flows thisweek is for the Republicans. They will
have just about all of the focusand media scrutiny on them, and I
mean that in a good way,because there's really no opposing message. If
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you look at the history of politicalcampaigns, it's kind of understood. These
are unwritten rules where if you're notthe party who is having the convention,
you lay low to a certain degree. You'll you'll have your speeches, but
you don't have the type of advertisingblitz that you would normally see during the
campaign. And of course, becauseof the events of Saturday, I think
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the Democrats are even more muted asthey try to recalibrate what type of message
they plan to move forward with.There are two main issues, and we'll
get into that in depth in abit. There are two main issues confronting
the Democrats. You have to decidewhether Joe Biden is going to be the
nominee first and foremost, and thenyou have to define what type of messaging
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you're going to use. How muchof an attack message will it be,
how aggressive will it be, orwill you focus on just a positive message
which is directed only at Democratic voters, independence and moderates. But the Democrats
will have some time because this isdowntime for them, which is true for
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any political convention if you are notthe party holding the convention. This is
the time where they don't have tomake ground. They can, i'll say,
hunker down and go into the proverbialbasement, as it were, and
then reassess their chances and their strategy. They were listening very closely to the
speech. I'm quite sure there willbe some messaging tomorrow or maybe even later
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tonight, contradicting what Senator Vance,vice presidential candidate Vance said, probably calling
out some of the things which arenot factually accurate. That's just how it's
done. And then tomorrow we'll seehow the rest of the nation responded,
and also we'll see how Republican leaningvoters or moderate voters undecided voters, how
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they're feeling about the addition of Vanceto the ticket and whether that moves the
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