July 22, 2024 Middletown, Ohio 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:14:29 Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), GOP vice presidential nominee ...when I was researching what I would say at the RNC and I mostly write my own stuff, I don't I mean, I'm not going off a teleprompter right now. You can probably tell that the president actually came out. He called me. He called me right before I went on and gave my speech. And he said, J.D., you're going to be great. 00:00:14:29 - 00:00:30:09 Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), GOP vice presidential nominee Just give me a little pep talk. You're going to be wonderful. The crowd out there is great. Just go out there and and speak from your heart. And I said, sir, that's right. that's exactly what I'm going to do. But I got to be honest with you, if I totally screwed up, it's too late. No take backs, right? 00:00:30:11 - 00:00:45:10 Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), GOP vice presidential nominee You've already asked me. I've already accepted. No take back. So this speech is just going to be icing on the cake. Thank you ma'am. God bless you. I was. 00:00:45:12 - 00:01:14:11 Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), GOP vice presidential nominee But here's the thing. I was researching what I was going to say about the president. And I realized that over a lifetime of business leadership. And then, of course, a few years of public service, the country has made a lot of stupid decisions. And President Donald Trump was right about every single one being a mistake and just. 00:01:14:14 - 00:01:39:05 Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), GOP vice presidential nominee You go back to 1994. I was a third grader at Roosevelt Elementary School on Central Avenue, which doesn't exist anymore with some Roosevelt people in here. God bless you. And 1994, this country gave a sweetheart trade deal to Mexico that sent hundreds of thousands of good manufacturing jobs, many of them in our communities, to Mexico. That was a bad idea. 00:01:39:05 - 00:01:58:12 Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), GOP vice presidential nominee We shouldn't have done it. And Donald Trump said it was a bad idea, right? The current administration, by the way, supported it in 2000 for the end of 1990s, I should say, we gave a sweetheart trade deal to the communist Chinese. We allowed them to build their middle class off the backs of the American middle class. And you know who supported it? 00:01:58:16 - 00:02:01:28 Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), GOP vice presidential nominee The current people in power, you know who opposed it, Donald J. Trump.