Ohio Senator JD Vance formally accepted the nomination to be Donald Trump’s running mate during his speech on Wednesday (17) at the Republican National Convention.
“I officially accept your nomination for vice president of the United States of America,” Vance said to applause.
Trump, who watched the speech from inside the arena, stood up to applaud.
By choosing a 39-year-old first-term senator from the center of the country over more experienced Republicans with deeper party ties, Trump is looking to the future of his political movement.
People close to Trump say he is counting on Vance to lead the party beyond his term, an expectation he never seriously entertained for his previous vice president, Mike Pence.
Republican vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday (17) for the first time since being nominated for the position. He was introduced by his wife Usha Vance.
Former Republican “Never Trump” Vance, 39, rose to fame with his 2016 memoir, “Dream Time.”
He would eventually win over Donald Trump before his Senate bid. Since then, the former lawyer and venture capitalist has become a loyal Trump follower and the apparent heir to his particular brand of Republican populist politics.
Vance began his speech at the Republican National Convention by saying it could have been a day of “heartache and mourning” following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
“Tonight is a night of hope – a celebration of what America once was by God’s grace, what it will soon be again,” Vance said.
He also sang “OHIO” for his state’s delegation. He was introduced by his wife, Usha, with chants of “JD” from the crowd as he took the stage.
Vance attacked Biden’s policies
Vance spoke about his upbringing and attacked President Joe Biden’s policies in his speech on Wednesday (17). He argued that Biden has harmed communities like the one where he grew up in Ohio.
“Somehow, a New York City real estate developer named Donald J. Trump was right on all of these issues while Biden was wrong,” Vance said.
“Joe Biden messed up and my community paid the price,” he added.
Vance said the country needs leaders “who put America first.”
The vice presidential candidate was born in Middletown, Ohio, on August 2, 1984, and spent part of his childhood in Kentucky. He recounted part of his life in his best-selling book “Once Upon a Dream.”
He served in the Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007 before attending Ohio State University and Yale Law School. Vance later worked as a venture capitalist before running for public office.
He argued that the country needs a leader who “will answer to workers, both union and nonunion” and fight to bring back factories. Trump is the person who would accomplish those things, he said.
Call for unity within the Republican Party
Republican Senator JD Vance repeated similar claims he made after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, casting the former president’s opponents as responsible for Saturday’s violence while celebrating Trump’s subsequent calls for unity.
“Now consider what they said. They said he was a tyrant. They said he must be stopped at all costs. But how did he respond? He appealed to national unity, to the call of the nation right after a murderer had nearly taken his life,” Vance said.
Vance on X, like some other Republican lawmakers in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, blamed President Joe Biden’s rhetoric.
“The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs,” Vance wrote.
“This rhetoric led directly to the assassination attempt on President Trump,” he added.
In his speech, Vance said: “And then President Trump flew to Milwaukee and went back to work. This is the man I have known personally over the last few years. He is tough but he cares about people. He can defy a murderer one moment and call for national healing the next.”
Usha Vance introduced her husband in speech
Usha Vance, wife of the Republican vice-presidential candidate, also spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday (17).
For years, the senator has described his wife as a key part of his success. She is relatively unknown, and tonight’s speech will serve as her public debut.
She is the daughter of Indian immigrants who grew up outside of San Diego. She met her husband at Yale Law School, where she also earned her undergraduate degree.
After college—two stints at Yale and a master’s degree in philosophy from Cambridge University—she clerked for two U.S. Supreme Court justices.
Her family is Hindu. JD Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019.
She worked as an associate at the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson until Monday, when the firm announced she had resigned.
Source: CNN Brasil
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