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## Video: J.D. Vance Tells RNC He’ll Be a Vice President ‘Who Never Forgets Where He Came From’

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_Published 2024-07-18. Ohio Senator J.D. Vance introduced himself to a national audience at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday after being chosen as Donald Trump’s running mate._


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## Transcript

My name is JD Vance from the Great State of Ohio. But as we meet tonight, we cannot forget that this evening could have been so much different. Instead of a day of celebration, this could have been a day of heartache and morning. For the last eight years, President Trump has given everything he has to fight for the people of our country. He didn't need politics, but the country needed him. D it? Now, prior to running for president, he was one of the most successful businessmen in the world. He had everything anyone could ever want in a life. And yet, instead of choosing the easy path, he to endure abuse, slander, and persecution, and he did it because he loves this country.

I want all Americans to go and watch the video of a would be assassin coming a quarter of an inch from taking his life. Consider the lies they told you about Donald Trump, and then look at that photo of him defiant fist in the air when Donald Trump rose to his feet in that Pennsylvania field, all of America stood with him. A And so, tonight, Mr. Chairman, I stand here humbled, and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude to say, I officially accept your nomination to be Vice President of the United States of America. When I was a senior in high school, that same Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq, and at each step of the way, in small towns like mine in Ohio or next door in Pennsylvania or Michigan, in states all across our country, jobs were sent overseas, and our children were sent to war.

And Joe Biden screwed up, and my community paid the price. Now, I was lucky. Despite the closing factories and the growing addiction in towns like mine, in my life, I had a guardian angel by my side. She was an old woman who could barely walk, but she was tough as nails. I called her Mama the name we Hillbillies gave to our grandmothers. President Trump represents America's last best hope to restore what, if lost, may never be found again, a country where a working class boy born far from the halls of power can stand on this stage as the next Vice President of the United States of America. Our movement is about single moms like mine, who struggled with money and addiction, but never gave up.

And I'm proud to say that tonight my mom is here, ten years clean and sober. I love you, Mom. It'll be ten years officially in January of 2025. And if President Trump's okay with it, let's have the celebration in the White House. Together, we will make sure our allies share in the burden of securing world peace, no more free rides for ns that betray the generosity of the American taxpayer. Together, we will send our kids to war only when we must. But as President Trump showed with the elimination of ISIS and so much more when we punch, we're going to punch hard. To the people of Middletown, Ohio, and all the forgotten communities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and every corner of our n, I promise you this.

I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from. And every single day for the next four years, when I walk into that White House to help President Trump, I will be doing it for you for your family, for your future, and for this great country. Thank you. God bless all of you, and God bless our great country.

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