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MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, July 17, 2024 ~ Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance addressed the Republican National Convention Wednesday in his first speech since being named Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate.
The speech focused heavily on the junior senator’s upbringing, highlighting the challenges of addiction and poverty that he and his family faced while living among the Rust Belt’s white working class.
“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 Mamaw, the name we hillbillies gave to our grandmothers,” Vance told the conventioneers.
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(CONTINUED) Vance credited his grandmother with keeping his life on track, saying that her guidance influenced him to enlist in the Marines following the 9/11 attacks. The senator said that the military gave him character and focus, leading him to post-military undergraduate studies at The Ohio State University and eventual studies at Yale Law School, where he met his wife, Usha.
Vance went on to speak about how he envisions his contributions in a future Trump administration, suggesting that he would focus on supporting the American working class through the revival of American manufacturing and the protection of blue-collar jobs.
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