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00:00Senator Vance, welcome back to the show. It's your first time on as the vice
00:04presidential nominee on the Republican side. First, you know, how does that feel
00:08when you got the call from President Trump asking you to be on the ticket?
00:13Well, obviously it feels incredible. Such a great honor and, you know, I grew up
00:18and I didn't expect my life to end up like this. Certainly, to be on a major party
00:23ticket at this stage, I think it's just a testament to the fact that we live in a
00:26great country. It's funny, when the president called, I initially missed the
00:31call, called him right back, and he joked with me that, he said, J.D., you missed a
00:36very important phone call. Maybe you'll have to pick somebody else. But luckily
00:39he didn't, and here we are campaigning in Arizona today, heading to the border
00:44tomorrow morning, and just, you know, enjoying it. But, you know, I remind
00:48myself every day that this is a very important job that we have to win this
00:52race and set the country on the right course.
00:54Well, Senator, I want to get to your backstory, because I'm going to be candid
00:59with you. I've obviously been a big supporter. My audience knows that. It's
01:02not a mystery. It's all a matter of public record. You can go back and look
01:05at my shows, but I did not know the exact details of your backstory, and I spent
01:11some time this weekend. I wasn't feeling great. I usually don't have a lot like
01:14you. I've got things going on, but I sat down and I watched Hillbilly Elegy. I
01:18want to get into that, because I have to tell you, I was deeply moved. But I got
01:21some other things I want to get to first. Your opponent on the ticket,
01:26the only opponent we know about, yeah, it is Kamala Harris, current
01:29vice president, now presumptive nominee. The positions she's taken, Senator, are
01:36not mysteries. She has been open about these things. The fact that she is now, as
01:42of yesterday, hilariously running as some kind of, you know, a strong on the
01:49border, you know, authoritarian on the border, it's got to be one of the
01:54greatest political miscalculations I've ever seen. She's actually bragging about
01:58this now, her record of failure. The numbers speak for themselves. Yeah, she's
02:03bragging about being a prosecutor, Dan, as if people aren't smart enough to
02:07realize that she was a prosecutor in San Francisco, which has seen one of the
02:12worst spikes of homelessness, of violent crime, of overdoses on the street. I mean,
02:17she's the prosecutor in San Francisco and wants to take those policies
02:21nationwide, that every American should run for the hills or at least try to
02:25vote her out of office, right? But you're exactly right. I mean, she has realized
02:28that her policies, even among Democratic primary voters, were complete failures.
02:34Nobody wanted to go as far left as she wanted the country to go in 2020. So she
02:40becomes vice president, and now the media that she's become the presumptive
02:45nominee is trying to cover for the fact that she supported a ban on fracking, and
02:51she wanted to defund the police, and she wanted to decriminalize illegal
02:54immigration. She wanted to end catch-and-release. She did all of these
02:57things, and now we have the terrible border crisis that we have, and she is
03:01running as far and as fast as possible from that record. It really is the most
03:06important thing we can do in this election, that you can do, that your
03:09listeners can do, is just to remind people of what she actually said and
03:14what she actually did. If the American people know the truth about how radical
03:18she was, they're not going to elect a San Francisco liberal like Kamala Harris to
03:22be their next president, but that's part of the job of the campaign over the next
03:25few months, is just remind people who she actually is. We're talking to Senator
03:30J.D. Vance. Senator, I am elated you said that, because on my podcast this morning,
03:35a listener I really enjoy was in the live chat and said, you know, this
03:41isn't going to happen. The media can't make all this go away with Kamala Harris,
03:45and Senator, I was forced to remind that listener that in the 2020 election,
03:49post-election polling, nearly 20% of Biden voters had no idea about the
03:56Hunter Biden laptop at all, and I think as conservatives, you and I, we become
04:00almost a product of our own, you know, our own knowledge base, you know. We don't
04:06realize that a lot of people out there, they're not paying attention as much to
04:09politics as the United States Senator and a guy who talks about it for a
04:12living do. There's an assumption everybody knows Kamala Harris is a far
04:17left socialist. Just listen to her own words. We cannot rely on that and assume
04:21there's gonna be some red wave. It's our job to go out there and evangelize the
04:25cause and show who this woman really is. Yeah, David, that's exactly right, and if
04:29you look at the polling that we have privately and publicly, about half of the
04:33country really doesn't have a strong opinion on Kamala Harris. They may be
04:37dislike her a little bit, they like her a little bit, but they have no idea what
04:41she's all about, and if the American people are aware that she was the most
04:46liberal United States Senator, even further to the left from Bernie Sanders,
04:50if people know that she wanted to destroy the police and take away people's
04:53rights to own a gun, even if she flooded the country with illegal immigrants and
04:58criminals, then they would not vote for her, but you're exactly right that a lot
05:02of people just don't know that record. Now, this is why, by the way, Dan, I think
05:06the media has been so corrupt in promoting this switcheroo that happened. We have to
05:11remember that she never got a single Democratic primary vote, she is now the
05:16Democratic nominee, and she covered up for Joe Biden's middle incapacity for
05:20years so that she could toss him aside and actually take the mantle of the
05:25Democratic Party. That is disgraceful, it's wrong, her record is a disaster, but
05:31the media is not going to tell the truth about Kamala Harris, so we have to. Now,
05:35we're talking to Senator J.D. Vance, Republican vice presidential nominee.
05:38Senator, you were a Marine, a lawyer, a senator, but you're also a tech
05:45investor and an investor. You've done some very successful, made some very successful
05:49moves, and your business acumen is sound, but understanding the tech space like no
05:55modern vice presidential nominee, are you as concerned with I am as I am about the
06:00ramp-up in the censorship regime we're seeing? Again, you've already seen
06:04President Trump's iconic fight photo censored under some ridiculous theory
06:10that a guy was smiling and some other... their excuses are just endless. You have
06:14AI now suggesting the assassination attempt on President Trump was a
06:19fictional event. Senator, I'm concerned, you understand the space like few others,
06:24they are doing everything they can to get their thumb on the scale, and that's
06:28why I'm worried about all this red wave talk. We're gonna have to overcome a lot
06:32of obstacles here. Yeah, that's exactly right, Dan. I mean, if you if you look at
06:362020, we know, you mentioned the Hunter Biden laughs top story earlier, we know
06:41that the big tech industry played a huge role in censoring negative stories about
06:45Joe Biden and helping Joe Biden ultimately prevail in that election. Now,
06:50a lot of us forgot about it, and you know, the media cycle has been so crazy the
06:54last few years that a lot of us don't remember, even though we should, that
07:00big tech put its thumb on the scale massively, and they're gonna try to do
07:03the exact same thing in 2024. It's why it's so important that we go and
07:07evangelize and do our own work here. It's also important why, you know, people who
07:11are in elected office, obviously I'm a United States Senator, me and my
07:15colleagues have to apply a lot of pressure to the tech industry, and we're
07:18doing that, and we'll keep on doing that to ensure that they don't effectively
07:21throw the election for Kamala Harris. But this is a major, major issue, and by
07:26the way, Dan, it's one of those things where we're gonna have to do something
07:30about this when we win, because I feel very confident, despite the headwinds, we
07:34are gonna win this race, but then we have to actually do something with that
07:38political authority that the American people have given us. These companies are
07:41too powerful, they control what we're allowed to say in our own country, and if
07:45they don't stop this, they're gonna get broken up, they're gonna get taken on by
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08:58ticket because, again, as a businessman in this space, they're not going to be
09:02able to easily smoke you up on these issues. You know what they do, JD?
09:06You see them. They walk in there and they talk jargon. I know it.
09:09I'm an investor too. You get lost in it sometimes. You have to go out and
09:13say, you've heard this and you've seen it. Let me get to something else
09:16because this weekend, like I said, I had some time. I'm sitting there with my wife
09:19and we say, you know, it's about time we watched Hillbilly Elegy. I've got the
09:24book. I haven't gotten through it yet but I watched the Netflix movie. Incredibly
09:28well done. It's gonna be a little hard for me. I'm sorry. I don't
09:34mean to get overly emotional but having dealt with a drug use in my family in a
09:39very, let's just say, similar situation, I got to tell you, Senator, I got
09:44pretty choked up watching the movie. It was really hard for me to
09:48get through and although I've always liked you and respected you, it's
09:52impossible to form an opinion about who you are if you haven't seen that movie
09:57and the things you went through with your mom and your grandmother and
10:01your family. You know, I got to tell you, it was really a hard movie to watch
10:06and I guess my question is, this has to give you a kind of different
10:11viewpoint having been through all of the levels of the socioeconomic scale
10:15and seeing the problems there on the working man and their troubles in
10:18America with things like deindustrialization and elsewhere. I mean,
10:22you've actually seen it. You haven't read about it in a textbook. Yeah, that's
10:27right, man. Yeah, my life was tough in a lot of ways and I was able to live the
10:31American dream but I ultimately look at it as a great source of privilege to use
10:36an overused word because now I have a perspective that I don't think a lot of
10:40people who come from an easy background have, right? And you know, I go and
10:45talk to people and I go and visit food banks or I talk to middle-class
10:50families that are struggling to put food on the table and I know exactly what
10:54they're going through. Like, I know what it's like when you go through your
10:58credit card bill at the end of the month and you figure out, well, how much am I
11:01going to pay off because I want to be able to afford to buy groceries and you
11:06know, that that push and pull of figuring out how to just basically get
11:10through life in times of financial struggle, it does give me a good
11:15perspective and I'm glad that I had that perspective and I think it's one of the
11:18reasons why I'm so frustrated with the policies of Kamala Harris and the Biden
11:22administration is, look, we know groceries have gone up 40% under this
11:26administration. They have no sympathy or even recognition that they've caused a
11:31problem. They want to celebrate the end of inflation. Well, American families are
11:36still feeling the effects of inflation every time they go to the grocery store.
11:40You know, I'm a big believer that we ought to encourage our young people to
11:45buy homes and to settle down. Well, you can't buy a home in this economy with
11:49interest rates at 8% and house prices going through the roof. By the way, one of
11:53the reasons why home prices are so expensive is because we let in 20
11:56million illegal aliens who shouldn't be here, who are competing with our young
11:59families for scarce homes. So I definitely bring a fresh perspective to
12:05this stuff and it just makes me angry at what the Biden administration has
12:08done but it also gives me just, you know, look, a lot of people out there are
12:13struggling. Some of them are Democrats, some of them are Republicans. I think
12:16that the American government exists to serve the interests of America's
12:19citizens and hopefully President Trump and I can get in there and do a much
12:23better job than Kamala Harris has done. Last question for you. There's a
12:29scene at the end of Hillbilly Elegy, you with your mom and in the hotel room and
12:34the drug, it's hard even to talk about again because I've been there and I know
12:37that conversation and you know unfortunately I never got the chance to
12:42rescue her. She passed and you know and I know you thankfully have had a
12:47different outcome with your family and I applaud you for saying that but we have
12:51a fentanyl crisis at our southern border right now. Kids are being killed, they're
12:55being murdered by this poison. That's got to feel a lot different to a guy like
13:00you that stared addiction and the soul death, the slow killing of a person's
13:07soul from it. That's got to mean something different to you. Yeah, it does
13:11Dan. I'm sorry to hear about your mom, man. I had no idea what happened and I'm
13:17you know, it's just it's terrible and it happens way too much in this country and
13:21if I can put a personal, you know, spin on this. I mean, you're right that things
13:28worked out for my mom and in some ways you have this it's almost guilty feeling
13:32over it because when it works out for your family and it doesn't work out for
13:35somebody else's, you just you wonder, you know, why do we get lucky and why did
13:38others not? And the thing that I try to remind myself is the fentanyl deprives
13:45people of second chances to overcome the addiction once and for all and be good
13:50moms and dads to their kids. I mean, look, addiction happens to a lot of different
13:54families up and down the socioeconomic ladder. But what was really different 15
13:59years ago was when mom was trying to get clean, the stuff that was on the streets
14:03was much less dangerous and much less likely to kill people. Now it still
14:07happened, of course, but it happened a lot less 15 years ago than it does today.
14:11And the way we should think about this fentanyl is it's depriving American
14:15families of second chances. You know, sometimes addicts get back on the ladder,
14:20get they get back on the horse and everything's fine. But sometimes they
14:22fall off and get back on and fall off and get back on. When you've got fentanyl
14:27in your streets, instead of some of the stuff that existed 15 years ago,
14:32sometimes those people are never gonna get a chance to get back on the horse.
14:36And we have to think about the orphan children and the grandchildren and the
14:39grandparents who are taking care of those grandchildren, whose lives have
14:42been destroyed, because Kamala Harris won't do her job and keep this country
14:47safe. And I just I get so frustrated at it, man, because yeah, it did work out
14:51for my family, but it hasn't worked out for hundreds of thousands of American
14:55families over the last few years. And that's something we've got to change.
14:59Senator, I think you've been doing an amazing job. I appreciate you fighting
15:03the left wing media smears. They're just shameful and disgusting. They can attack
15:07you in whatever policy they want, but attacking you on your character is
15:10freaking disgusting. And I've told my audience that so thank you so much. We
15:13appreciate you accepting the nomination and best of luck. Obviously, welcome back
15:17on the show anytime hope things really work out. We got a we got a country to
15:21save. Thanks a lot. Thanks. Take care, man. You got it. Folks, I'm telling you,
15:26man, just watch that scene. And that movie based on his life. A lot of you
15:32sadly have been there and had that exact conversation. And you know exactly what
15:37that looks like. Hey, thanks so much for listening. You can check out my radio
15:41show every day on a station near you just go to bongino.com station finder or
15:46you can listen every day on rumble at rumble.com slash bongino. Really
15:51appreciate it. Thanks a lot.