'President Trump Represents America's Last Best Hope': JD Vance

2 months ago

During his VP acceptance speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) spoke about his American Dream, and Donald Trump's ability to inspire.

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00:00Some people tell me I've lived the American Dream, and of course they're right, and I'm

00:09so grateful for it. But the American Dream that always counted most was not starting

00:13a business or becoming a senator or even being here with you fine people, though it's pretty

00:18awesome. My most important American Dream was becoming a good husband and a good dad,

00:25of being able to give. I wanted to give my kids the things that I didn't have when I

00:37was growing up, and that's the accomplishment that I'm proudest of. That tonight, I'm joined

00:44by my beautiful wife Usha, an incredible lawyer and a better mom, and our three beautiful

00:50kids, Ewan, who's seven, Vivek, who's four, and Mirabel, who's two. Now, they're back

00:56at the hotel, and kids, if you're watching, Daddy loves you very much, but get your butts

01:00in bed. It's ten o'clock. But my friends, things did not work out well for a lot of

01:09kids I grew up with. Every now and then, I will get a call from a relative back home

01:13who asks, did you know so-and-so? And I'll remember a face from years ago, and then I'll

01:19remember they died of an overdose. As always, America's ruling class wrote the checks. Communities

01:25like mine paid the price. For decades, that divide between the few with their power and

01:31comfort in Washington and the rest of us only widened. From Iraq to Afghanistan, from the

01:37financial crisis to the Great Recession, from open borders to stagnating wages, the people

01:42who govern this country have failed and failed again. That is, of course, until a guy named

01:56Donald J. Trump came along. President Trump represents America's last best hope to restore

02:07what, if lost, may never be found again, a country where a working class boy born far

02:14from the halls of power can stand on this stage as the next Vice President of the United

02:19States of America.

02:43But my fellow Americans watching at home, this moment is not about me. It's about all

02:50of us, and it's about who we're fighting for. It's about the autoworker in Michigan wondering

02:56why out-of-touch politicians are destroying their jobs. It's about the factory worker

03:03in Wisconsin who makes things with their hands and is proud of American craftsmanship.

03:13It's about the energy worker in Pennsylvania and Ohio who doesn't understand why Joe Biden

03:18is willing to buy energy from tin-pot dictators across the world when he could buy it from

03:23his own citizens right here in our own country.

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