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VP Pick Vance's Speech Caps Day 3 of RNC

VP Pick Vance's Speech Caps Day 3 of RNC

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  • Former Pres. Donald Trump's running mate, US Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Wednesday addressed the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, making the argument that as vice president he would fight for "forgotten communities" in Rust Belt states and draw on his experience growing up poor in Ohio and Kentucky.

  • Vance, 39, recapped his path from his rural upbringing to his time in the US Marines, at Yale Law School, and eventually the Senate. He also accused "America's ruling class" of destroying rural communities with trade agreements and foreign wars.

  • In addition to saying the GOP a second Trump administration would avoid "catering to Wall Street" and instead would "commit to the working man," Vance said the US would be "done importing foreign labor" and "buying energy from countries that hate us" under Trump.


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