Donald Trump's VP pick JD Vance promises to fight for working class Americans

US Republican vice presidential nominee J D Vance praised former president Donald Trump and promised to fight for workingclass Americans cast aside and forgotten by the Democrats as he made his debut at the Republican National ConventionVance 39 formally accepted the Republican vicepresidential nomination on the third day of the convention on Wednesday making him among the youngest Americans to ever fill that roleIntroducing himself to millions of Americans the Ohio Senator channelled his humble roots in the Midwest as he assailed politicians like President Joe BidenTrump and his running mate Vance will challenge President Biden and his VicePresident Kamala Harris from the Democratic Party in the November 5 presidential electionVance said for the last eight years President Trump has given everything he has to fight for the people of our country Trump didnt need politics but the country needed him he saidPrior to running for president he was one of the most successful businessmen in the world He had everything anyone could ever want in life And yet instead of choosing the easy path he chose to endure abuse slander and persecution he saidThe author of the bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy about his impoverished family said Americas ruling class had destroyed communities like his hometown with trade agreements and foreign warsFrom 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 he saidTrump represents Americas last best hope to restore what if lost may never be found again he said I pledge to every American no matter your party I will give everything I have Vance said 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 againHe accused career politicians like President Biden 81 of destroying communities like his with illfated trade policies and foreign wars When I was in the fourth grade a career politician by the name of Joe Biden supported the North American Free Trade Agreement a bad trade deal that sent countless good American manufacturing jobs to Mexico When I was a sophomore in high school a career politician by the name of Joe Biden gave China a sweetheart trade deal that destroyed even more good middleclass jobs And when I was a senior in high school Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq he saidAnd at each step of the way in small towns like mine in Ohio or next door in Pennsylvania or in Michigan and other states across our country jobs were sent overseas and children were sent to war Somehow a real estate developer from New York by the name of Donald Trump was right on all of these issues while Joe Biden was wrong Donald Trump knew even then that we needed leaders who would put America First he saidVance said Trumps vision is simple We wont cater to Wall Street well commit to the Working man We wont import foreign labour well fight for American citizensThe United States under the leadership of Trump will protect the wages of American workers and stop the Chinese Communist Party from building their middle class on the backs of hardworking American citizensHe said Biden and the other outoftouch politicians in Washington gave Americans a country that was flooded with cheap Chinese goods cheap foreign labour and deadly Chinese fentanylJoe Biden screwed up and my community paid the price Vance allegedVance said never in his wildest imagination would he have believed that he could be standing here tonight Vance said the country needs Trump as the presidentSome people tell me Ive lived the American Dream and they are right But the American Dream that always counted most was not starting a business or becoming a senator or even being here with you fine people it was becoming a good husband and a good dad and giving my family the things I never had as a kid he saidIn the speech he charted his journey from a difficult childhood in smalltown Ohio to the US Marines Yale Law School and finally the US SenateDescribing the evening as a night of hope and promising change Vance threaded a sense of optimism throughout his speechOne emotional moment came when Vance introduced his mother Beverly who struggled with drugs during his childhood but who he said had been sober for nearly a decade He also lavished praise on his wife Usha I am married to the daughter of South Asian immigrants to this country incredible people people who genuinely have enriched the country in so many ways Vance saidAnd of course Im biased because I love my wife but I believe that its true When I proposed to my wife we were in law school and I said Honey I come with USD 120000 worth of law school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness 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