[Applause] yeah first of all AR I look a guy Isn't She Lovely amazing greetings Milwaukee my fellow Americans and my fellow Republicans my name is JD Vance from the great state of Ohio tonight iio o h IO you guys we got to we're going to chill with the Ohio love we got to win Michigan 2o here [Applause] so my friends tonight is a night of Hope a celebration of what America once was and with God's grace what it will soon be again and it is a reminder of the Sacred Duty we have to preserve the
American experiment to choose a new path for our children and grandchildren 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 mourning for the last eight years president Trump has given everything he has to fight for the people of our country he he didn't need politics but the country needed him now pridor 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 chose to endure abuse slander and persecution and he did it because he L this country I want all Americans to to go with watch the video of a wouldbe 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 and what did he call us to do for our
country to fight to fight for America even in his most perilous moment we were on his mind his Instinct was for us for our country to call us to something higher to something greater to once again be citizens who ask what our country needs of us 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 called for National Unity for National calm literally right after an assassin nearly took his life he remembered the victims of the terrible attack especially the
brave Cory comori who gave his life to protect his family God bless him and then president Trump flew to Milwaukee and got back to work now that's the man I've gotten to know personally over the last few years he is tough and he is but he cares about people he can stand defiant against an assassin one moment and call for National healing the next he is a beloved father and grandfather and of course a once in a generation business leader he's the man who was feared by America's adversaries but two nights ago and I'll share
a moment said good night to his two boys told them he loved them and made sure to give each of them a kiss on the cheek and I will say Don and Eric squirmed the same way my four-year-old does when his daddy tries to give him a kiss on the cheek sorry [Applause] guys he is all those things but tonight we celebrate he is our Once and Future president of the United States of America now I want to respond to his call for Unity myself we have a big tent in this party on everything from
National Security to Economic Policy but my message to you my fellow Republicans is we love this country and we are united to win right now I think our disagreements actually make us stronger that's what I've learned in my time in the United States Senate where sometimes I persuade my colleagues and sometimes they persuade me and my message to my fellow Americans those watching from across the country is shouldn't we be governed by a party that is unafraid to debate ideas and come to the best solution that's the Republican Party of the next four years United
in our love for this country and committed to free speech and the open exchange of ideas and so tonight Mr chairman I stand Here humbled and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude to say I officially accept or nomination to be Vice President of the United States of America thank you now never in my wildest imagination could I have believed that I'd be standing here tonight I grew up in Middletown [Music] Ohio a small town where people spoke their minds built with their hands and loved their God their family their community and their country with their whole Hearts
amen but it was also a place that had been cast aside and forgotten by America's ruling class in Washington when I was in the fourth grade a career politician by the name of Joe Biden supported NAFTA a bad trade deal that sent countless good jobs to Mexico when I was a sophomore in high school that same career politician named Joe Biden gave China a sweetheart trade deal that destroyed even more good American middle- class manufacturing jobs 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 [Music] [Applause] I agree and somehow a real estate developer from New York City by the name of Donald J Trump was right on all of these issues while Biden was wrong [Applause] president Trump knew even then that we needed leaders who would put America first now thanks to these B these policies that Biden and other out of touch politicians in
Washington gave us our country was flooded with cheap Chinese Goods with cheap foreign labor and in the decades to come deadly Chinese fentol Joe Biden screwed up and my community paid the price now I was lucky despite the closing factories and the growing Addiction in 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 mamal the name we Hillbillies gave to our grandmothers [Music] [Applause] M all raised me as her own excuse me
m all raised me as my mother struggled with addiction mmal was in so many ways a woman of contradiction she loved the Lord ladies and gentlemen she was a woman of very deep Christian faith but she also loved the f word [Applause] I'm not kidding she could make a sailor blush now she once told me when she found out that I was spending too much time with a local kid who was known for dealing drugs that if I ever hung out with that kid again she would run him over with her [Applause] car that's true
and she said JD no one will ever find out about it [Applause] now now thanks to that M all things worked out for me after 9/11 I did what thousands of other young men my age did in that time of soaring patriotism and love of country I enlisted in the United States Marines simpy to my fellow Marines now I left the Marines after four years and went to the Ohio State [Applause] University I'm sorry Michigan I had to get that in there come on come on we've had enough political violence let's now after Ohio State
I went to E Law School where I met my beautiful wife and then I started businesses to create jobs in the kind of places that I grew up in now my work taught me that there is still so much talent and grit in the American Heartland there really is but for these places to thrive my friends we need a leader who fights for the people who built this country we need a leader who's not in the pocket of big business but answers to the Working Man Union and non-union alike a leader who won't sell out
to multinational corporations but will stand up for American companies and American industry a leader who rejects Joe Biden and kamla Harris's green new scam and fights to bring back our Great American factories we need president Donald J Trump some people tell me I've lived the American dream and of course they're right and I'm so grateful for it but the American dream that always counted most was not starting a business or becoming a senator or even being here with you find people though it's pretty awesome my most important American dream was becoming a good husband and
a good dad of being able to give I wanted to give my kids the things that I didn't have when I was growing up and that's the accomplishment that I'm proudest of that tonight I'm joined by my beautiful wife Usha an incredible lawyer and a better mom and our three beautiful kids Yan who's seven VI who's four and Mirabel who's two now they're back at the hotel and kids if you're watching Daddy loves you very much but get your butts in bed it's 10:00 but my friends things did not work out well for a lot
of kids I grew up with every now and then I will get a call from a relative back home who asks did you know so and so and I'll remember a face from years ago and then I'll hear they died of an overdose as always America's ruling class wrote the checks communities like mine paid the price for decades that divide between the few with their power and comfort in Washington and the rest of us only widened from Iraq to Afghanistan from the financial crisis to the Great Recession from open borders to stagnating wages the people
who govern this country have failed and failed again that is of course until a guy named Donald J Trump came along [Applause] president Trump represents America's last best hope to restore what if lost may never be found again a country where a workingclass boy born far from the halls of power can stand on this stage as the next Vice President of the United States of America [Applause] but my fellow Americans here in this stage and watching at home this moment is not about me it's about all of us and it's about who we're fighting for
it's about the auto worker in Michigan wondering why out of touch politicians are destroying their jobs it's about the factory worker in Wisconsin who makes things with their hands and is proud of American craftsmanship it's about the energy worker in Pennsylvania in Ohio who doesn't understand why Joe Biden is willing to buy energy from tinpot dictators across the world when he could buy it from his own citizens right here in our own country [Applause] you guys are a great crowd wow [Applause] and it's about 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 10 years clean and sober I love you Mom bab bab baby [Applause] [Music] and and and you know Mom I was thinking it'll be 10 years officially in January of 2025 and if president Trump's okay with it let's have the celebration in the White House and our movement ladies and gentlemen it's about Grandparents all across this country who are living on Social Security and raising grandchildren they didn't expect to raise and while we're on the topic of grandparents
let me tell you another mamal story now my MMA died shortly before I left for Iraq in 2005 and when we went through a things we found 19 loaded handguns they were now the thing is her house under her bed in our closet in the silverware drawer and we wondered what was going on and it occurred to us that towards the end of her life mmal couldn't get around so well and so this frail old woman made sure that no matter where she was she was with an arms length of whatever she needed to protect
her family that's who we fight for that's American Spirit [Applause] now Joe Biden has been a politician in Washington for longer than I've been alive 39 years old K Harris is not much further behind for half Century he's been the champion of every major policy initiative to make America weaker and poorer and in four short years Donald Trump reversed Decades of betrayals inflicted by Joe Biden and the rest of the corrupt Washington insiders he created the greatest economy in history for workers really was amazing there's there's this chart that shows worker wages and they stagnated
for pretty much my entire life until president Donald J Trump came along workers wages went through the [Applause] roof and just imagine what he's going to do when we give him four more years [Applause] months ago I heard some young family member observe that their parents generation the Baby Boomers could afford to buy a home when they first entered the workforce but I don't know this person observed if I'll ever be able to afford a home the Absurd cost of housing is the result of so many failures and it reveals so much about what's broken
in Washington I can tell you exactly how it happened Wall Street Barons crashed the economy and American builders went out of business as Tradesmen scrambled for jobs houses stopped being built the lack of good jobs of course led to stagnant wages and then then the Democrats flooded this country with millions of illegal aliens so citizens had to compete with people who shouldn't even be here for precious housing Joe Biden's inflation crisis my friends is really an affordability crisis and many of the people that I grew up with can't afford to pay more for groceries more
for gas more for rent and that's exactly what Joe Biden's economy has given them so prices soared dreams were shattered and China and the cartel sent V fentol across the border adding addiction to the a heartache but ladies and gentlemen that is not the end of our story we've heard about villains and their victims I've talked a lot about that but let me tell you about the future president Trump's vision is so simple and yet so powerful we're done ladies and gentlemen catering to Wall Street will commit to The Working Man [Applause] we're done importing
foreign labor we're going to fight for American citizens and their good jobs and their good wages we're done buying energy from countries that hate us we're going to get it right here from American workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio and across the country we are done sacrificing Supply chains to unlimited global trade and we're going to stamp more and more products with that beautiful label made in the [Applause] USA we're going to build factories again put people to work making real products for American families made with the hands of American workers together we will protect the
wages of American workers and stop the Chinese Communist Party from building their middle class on the backs of American citizens together we will make sure our allies share in the burden of securing World Peace no more free rides for Nations that betray the generosity of the American [Applause] 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 together we will put the citizens of America first whatever the color of their skin
we will in short make America great again you know one of the things that you hear people say sometimes is that America is an idea and to be clear America was indeed founded on brilliant ideas like the rule of law and religious liberty things written into the fabric of our constitution in our nation but America is not just an idea it is a group of of people with a shared history and a common future it is in short a nation now it is part of that tradition of course that we welcome newcomers but when we
allow newcomers into our American family we allow them on our terms that's the way we preserve the continuity of this project from 250 years past to hopefully 250 years in the future and let me illustrate this with a story if I may I'm of course married to the daughter of South Asian immigrants to this country incredible people people who genuinely have enriched this country in so many ways and of course I'm biased because I love my wife and her family but it's true now when I proposed to my wife we were in law school and
I said honey I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountain side in Eastern [Applause] Kentucky and I I I guess standing here tonight it's just gotten weirder and weirder honey but that but but that's what she was getting now that cemetery plot and Eastern Kentucky is near my family's ancestral home and like a lot of people we came from the mountains of Appalachia into the factories of Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan and [Applause] Wisconsin now that's Kentucky Cole country one of the [Applause] 10 now it's one of the 10
poor counties in the entire United States of America they are very hardworking people and they're very good people they're the kind of people who would give you the shirt off their back even if they can't afford enough to eat and our media calls them privileged and looks down on them but they love this country not only because it's a good idea but because in their bones they know that this is their home and it will be their children's home and they would die fighting to protect it that is the source of America's greatness as a
United States Senator I get to represent millions of people in the great state of Ohio with similar stories and it is the great honor of my life now in that Cemetery there are people who were born around the time of the Civil War and if as I hope my wife and I are eventually laid to rest there and our kids follow us there will be seven generations just in that small Mountain cemetery plot in Eastern Kentucky seven generations of people who have fought for this country who have built this country who have made things in
this country and who would fight and die to protect this country if they were asked to now now that's not just an idea my friends that's not just a set of principle even though the ideas and the principles are great that is a Homeland that is our homeland people will not fight for abstractions but they will fight for their home and if this movement of ours is going to succeed and if this country is going to thrive our leaders have to remember that America is a nation and it's citizens deserve leaders who put its interests
first now we won't agree on every issue of course not even in this room we may disagree from time to time about how best to reinvigorate American industry and renew American family that's fine in fact it's more than fine it's good but never forget that the reason why this United Republic Republican party exists why we do this why we care about those great ideas and that great history is that we want this nation to thrive for centuries to come now eventually in that se that mountain Cemetery my children will lay me to rest and when
they do I would like them to know that thanks to the work of this Republican party the United States of America and as strong and as proud and as great as [Applause] ever that is who we serve my friends that is who we fight for and the only thing that we need to do right now the most important thing that we can do for those people for that American nation that we all love is to reelect Donald J Trump president of the United [Applause] States Mr President I will never take for granted the trust you
have put in me and what an honor it is to help achieve the extraordinary Vision that you have for this country now I pledge to every American no matter your party I will give you everything I have to serve you and to make this country a place where every dream you have for yourself your family and your country will be possible once again and I promise you one more thing to the people of Middletown Ohio and all the Forgotten communities in Michigan Wisconsin Pennsylvania and Ohio and every corner of our nation I proom you this
I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from [Applause] 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 w [Music]
