JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, praised the former president’s defiant reaction to his attempted assassination during a spirited speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Vance portrayed Trump as a resilient fighter with a deep commitment to the nation and its citizens.
In accepting the vice presidential nomination on Wednesday, the Ohio senator focused on an optimistic message rather than aggressive rhetoric. He highlighted Trump’s response immediately following the shooting at a campaign rally on Saturday as a testament to his leadership and patriotism.
“He urged us to fight for our country, even amidst great danger. In his most critical moments, he was thinking of us,” Vance stated.”He instinctively called us to aspire to higher ideals, to reclaim our role as citizens who ask what our nation requires of us.”Vance, once a critic of Trump who had previously called him an “idiot” and “reprehensible” before the 2016 election, acknowledged that the businessman-turned-politician had faced “abuse, slander, and persecution” in service to the country.”Consider what was said about him: labeled a tyrant, marked for total opposition,” Vance continued.”But how did he respond? He appealed for national unity, for calm across the nation, immediately after surviving an assassination attempt.”
Vance criticized President Joe Biden, noting that over the past fifty years, Biden had consistently supported policies that he believed weakened and impoverished America. This included endorsing initiatives such as the NAFTA free trade agreement and the Iraq War, actions which Vance argued led to job losses in communities like his in Ohio, as well as in neighboring Pennsylvania, Michigan, and across the nation, while also sending American children into conflict abroad.
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