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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - VP pool note #11 - Speech highlights / rope line
Vance’s speech started with calls for people to vote for Sen. Jon Husted and governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. VP praised Sen. Husted for role on no tax on tips and no tax on overtime.
“Now, of course, it's also because of President Trump. I'm going to get in trouble. I'm giving John Houston so much credit. I'm going to get a call from the president,” joked Vance.
Hailed Vivek Ramaswamy’s (brief) DOGE role.
“Now you may not remember this, but in the early days of Doge, the vague saved billions and billions of dollars from going to woke pet projects and do nothing bureaucrats in Washington, and he has promised me that he is going to do the exact same thing from the governor's mansion in Columbus, Ohio.”
After some comments on the Trump administration’s record, Vance went on the attack against former Sen. Sherrod Brown and Rep. Marcy Kaptur
Referenced his grandfather as he attacked Brown.
“My Papaw, his entire life, was a Blue Dog Union Democrat. He fought for his jobs. He fought for his coworkers. This was a man who loved his town, who loved his industry and loved the people he stood on with, but Sherrod Brown's voting record shows that he is not the kind of Democrat that JFK was. He's not the kind of Democrat that Mike Patwa or Franklin Roosevelt was. Hell, Sherrod is not even the kind of Democrat that Bill Clinton was.”
Said of the midterms: “This election is the most important election of our lifetimes”
And a personal take on his message of reviving US industry:
“When I was a young man, when I was a kid driving around in Middletown, Ohio, I would drive around and actually see them put up the signs of factories closing. I would talk to my friends who've learned that their fathers and their mothers had just lost their jobs, and for my entire life, I wonder why do we have politicians who let this happen to us? We know who the senator was back then, Sherrod Brown.”
Closing line after almost exactly 30 mins: “And we need to send a message that America belongs to those who love it, not those who hate it, and so long as the Democrats hate this country, they don't get our vote and they can stay the hell out of Washington.”
VP shook hands on the rope line immediately afterwards.
He had an interaction with a woman wearing a black “Vance 2028” hat spotted by keen eyes of co-pooler Daniel Baldwin.
Danny Kemp
AFP