'No more free rides': Trump running mate JD Vance delivers isolationist acceptance speech
A vocal climate change sceptic who disdains US support for Ukraine, Vance put forward a policy agenda tightly focused on 'making America great again'.
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00:00Republican Party Vice Presidential Candidate J.D. Vance told GOP members in Milwaukee that
00:07he and his presidential running mate Donald Trump will make America great again if elected.
00:13Thirty-nine-year-old Ohio Senator, Marine veteran and critic of U.S. support for Ukraine
00:18said he would do this through scrapping the country's reliance on foreign labor and energy
00:22and reexamining military aid.
00:25Together, we will make sure our allies share in the burden of securing world peace.
00:31No more free rides for nations that betray the generosity of the American taxpayer.
00:37It comes as many senior Democrats express mounting concern over whether their party's
00:43presumptive presidential candidate, the incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden, who recently tested
00:49positive for COVID, would win office.
00:52The Democrats will formally announce who's on their ticket in early August.