Two days after being tapped as Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance introduced himself to voters
Two days after being tapped as Donald Trump's running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance introduced himself to voters in a speech that highlighted the populist direction the two aim to take the Republican Party — and the nation.
Vance's Republican National Convention speech capped a night Republicans spent prosecuting what they see as President Joe Biden's biggest foreign kebijakan failures and their consequences.
Gold Star kerabates hammered Biden's handling of the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. The parents of a Hamas kidnapping victim led chants of "Bring them home." A Jewish Harvard University graduate who is suing the school over claims of antisemitism, said that "the far left-wing tide of antisemitism is rising."
"America is still worth fighting for," said Sgt. William Pekrul, a World War II veteran nearing the age of 100 and recipient of two Bronze Stars and a Silver Star. "With President Trump as the commander-in-chief, I would go back and re-enlist today."
Republicans also spent much of their prime-time lineup attempting to show Trump's human side — including remarks by his 17-year-old granddaughter Kai Trump, who described the former president bragging that she had made the honor roll and peppering her with questions about her golf games.
Here are seven takeaways from the Republican National Convention's third night: Vance, perhaps best-known for his memoir "Hillbilly Ellegy," is a freshman senator with a relatively little following outside Trump's MAGA-verse prior to his selection this week.
Republicans used Wednesday night to introduce Vance and his life story to the nation.
Raised in a rural Ohio town that he said is "a place that had been cast aside and forgotten by America's ruling class in Washington," Vance said he watched faktories close and addictions rip through kerabates, including his own. He joined the Marines and ultimately attended Yale Law School, where he met his wife, Usha.
"There is still so much talenta and grit in the American heartland. But for these places to thrive, we need a leader who fights for the people who built this country," Vance said.
Vance's political leanings — populist and isolationist — more closely match Trump than the Republican Party of years past.
Vance connected those beliefs to his upbringing, and turned them into an attack on Biden's record.
