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July 27, 2024 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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THE INSIDE STORY OF JD VANCE: PART 2
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We are in a fifth generational conflict.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to part two of a very special two-part series here on Human Events Daily, the inside story of the rise of J.D.
- Deliver us from evil. - Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to part two of a very special two-part series here on Human Events Daily, the inside story of the rise of JD Vance.
Vance.
So many people were asking, how did this pick take place?
How was this election made?
How was it that Donald Trump stood up to the special interests, the military-industrial complex, the moneyed interests, and, I'm just gonna say it, the Murdoch empire?
Me, Charlie, and the entire team have got the story, and we're giving it to you.
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.
President Trump knew even then that we needed leaders who would put America first.
Now thanks to 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 fentanyl.
Joe Biden screwed up, and my community paid the price.
Now, 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.
Mamaw raised me as her own Excuse me, Mamaw raised me as my mother struggled with addiction.
Mamaw 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.
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 car.
That's true.
And she said, "J.D., no one will ever find out about it." The only point of today that I actually went into the Pfizer Forum was to watch J.D. get his nomination.
Now, he didn't speak at the nomination, but he appeared on the floor, and I think this was just maybe, maybe minutes after actually receiving word, and Charlie, you were just saying before that he did not know.
I've screenshotted my text history, because I think it's actually going to be really important for, like, Future generations?
Historical.
I said at 1.23, I said, I bet you get a call in the next 20 or 30.
I said, it's happening quick.
Be ready for the cameras.
And then at 2.16, thanks for everything, dude.
We should actually hang that up.
But also, so 2-16, that's 12 minutes after Trump's truth post.
Correct.
Which means whatever call they had was not long.
But I was right on my timing.
I saw things coming into gear.
And I was like, be ready.
And then, yeah, it's just... So anyway... Again, I'm still trying to process this.
I'm processing all this because I'm an insider-outsider.
Do you think Trump had made a final decision at noon today?
No.
Well, yes, I think, look, here's my speculation.
So there's also the RNC paperwork.
Well, that was the forcing function.
That was the forcing function.
But I think that President Trump, first and foremost, he was obsessed with the idea of the most eyeballs on a convention where it's like The Apprentice.
So he had that as an idea, because every time I spoke to him about this, that was his idea.
Number two, he was legitimately trying to not make a Pence mistake.
Yeah.
And because of that, he wanted to exhaustively hear from everybody, multiple times, every argument, until he could repeat them back.
Okay?
And so, everybody was weighing in, and calling, and from different camps, and I'm just speculating here, but I think the president started to see similarity between the type of people that were advocating for JD, and type of people that were not advocating for JD.
Well, to your credit, someone else on the RNC brought up this point to me tonight.
So we're hanging out in the lounge outside and they came up to me on this topic and they said, It is so good and refreshing that the president spent the time going through all that, hearing from those voices, lining them up in columns.
And so he started to hear all the chatter, and he started to say, wait a second, the people who don't like JD have waffled on me in the past, supported my opponents.
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I left the Marines after four years and went to the Ohio State University.
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Now, after Ohio State, I went to Yale 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.
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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 Kamala Harris' Green News 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 fine 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-- Thank you.
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, Ewan, who's seven, Vivek, who's four, and Mirabel, who's two.
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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 the people who govern this country have failed and failed again.
That is, of course, until a guy named Donald J. Trump came along.
President Trump represents America's last best hope to restore what, if lost, may never be found again.
A country where a working class boy born far from the halls of power can stand on this stage as the next Vice President of the United States of America.
Thank you, guys.
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 autoworker 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.
- Are really pro Ukraine in like a very strange, like hypersexual way.
- And not just pro Ukraine, but pro like war.
- No, I, yeah, I know, but like, you can just fill in the gaps of who that might be.
- Yeah.
- And so-- - Oversexualized.
- And again, I just, the president did, conducted the most thorough vice presidential search, I think in history.
- So wait, wait, Charlie, what you're saying is that Trump did the vetting himself.
Well, here's what I know.
The campaign team did all of the backgrounding dossiers.
Like the official vetting?
Yes.
So, you know, is there a divorce we don't know about?
Is there a scandal, right?
So as soon as all those people went through that vetting, he was given basically a binder on each.
Here's all the negative stuff they've ever said about you.
Just so you know, right?
And so then from that point forward, it was like, this is your decision.
And the campaign handled it beautifully.
There was no manipulation, there was no steering.
They were like, this is your decision.
And again, he was hearing from a wide range of voices on this.
And again, the list that emerged and why JD was selected was loyalty, but I never got the... People are saying it's heir apparent.
I think that's playing into it.
I don't actually think that's correct.
I believe that President Trump enjoyed spending time with J.D.
the most, out of all the finalists.
Really?
J.D.' 's an enjoyable person to be around.
I think that President Trump felt warm, as if this is someone who gets him, someone who has high energy, someone who's high achieving, someone that is very high IQ, that understands the MAGA base, plus it checks all the boxes of that region of the world, and I think it was as simple as, I want to hang out with him more.
Again, there were other elements at play.
I've heard I'm not gonna name names, but I've heard that he made some comments about other Individuals who were in the running that were hanging out with him a lot lately and don't say names He I know what you're saying wasn't you know as as interested in in all of it and so the the The thing I just wanted to say about J.D.
is the two things.
Number one, I think the East Palestine trip was seminal in the way J.D.
put that together because that was a very special moment for Trump.
I think it was a turning point for his campaign.
There was a lot of discussion of that in the press today about how important that was to his campaign.
It was monumental.
Because Trump before that was just J.6.
It was all J.6.
It was J.6, J.6, J.6.
He had announced already.
No, J.D.
had endorsed, which also plays a role.
When was East Palestine?
So, February of 23.
But remember, he went to the McDonald's afterwards.
Right, but that was the first one.
That was the first one of the campaign where he did any of those things, and J.D.
was seminal in setting it up.
Now, he didn't set up early.
It was early before everybody was... Understand, J.D.
was only a senator for a couple months at that point.
A couple weeks.
A couple weeks, yeah.
But then Donald Trump watches a lot of TV, and he noticed something in J.D.
that he hadn't noticed in other endorsed candidates, which is here's how it usually works.
They grow close to Trump when they're in cycle, they get the endorsement, and then they kind of just do their own thing, and it kind of becomes Chamber of Commerce talking points, and there's distance.
He was like, wait, J.D.' 's still like defending me.
Yeah.
And and he was the first senator, I think, to endorse Trump, like one of the first.
And he did.
He put in an op ed in The Wall Street Journal.
And it wasn't just like he tweeted it out.
He had a whole, you know, full summary of why he was doing it.
It was and it was all based on MAGA values.
It was not this warmed over Chamber of Commerce or like neocon world, you know, talking points about blah, blah, blah.
No, it was really full throated MAGA.
And just please talk.
I was just going to say this point, too, that this is more of the insider baseball stuff, but JD surrounded himself with really good people.
So I want to make this... Staffed really well.
I'm going to tell you this right now, that most people that surround even our best people suck.
And JD, on the other hand, is surrounded by incredible, incredibly loyal people, not just to JD, but to the movement in general.
And I can tell you, like, when things have Gone really well for Turning Point and things like that.
One of the first people to reach out has been JD and his team.
They reached out and said, great job with this or awesome job.
That doesn't happen anywhere else.
And people listening at home need to understand this.
He is an incredible person but surrounded by incredible people.
It was his 10th wedding anniversary.
We had the People's Convention in Detroit.
And I was like, dude, I want you to be VP.
I was public at that point.
I was like, we're doing a straw poll.
I think you'll do well if you show up.
Like, this is the hilarious thing.
I was like, hey Lauren, JD's coming.
I had to fly home because of a baby issue.
I was like a three-week-old.
All that great stuff.
It's like, hey Lauren, so he's coming.
She's like, yeah, he's driving himself from Columbus.
And I'm like, what?
What?
Again, I'm kind of used to like, I'm charging a plane.
He jumped in a minivan and he just came up.
I kid you not, J.D.
Vance, literally on a Sunday morning, woke up at like 6am, got like a big thing of coffee, and drove up himself from Columbus, Ohio, to Detroit, Michigan, spoke at our event, did all the media, shook all the hands, got back in his car, and drove back to Columbus, Ohio.
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Yes, we are. we are.
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.
Ten years clean and sober.
I love you, Mom.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And you know, Mom, I was thinking it'll be 10 years officially in January of 2025, and if President Trump's okay and if President Trump's okay with it, let's have the celebration in the
let's have the celebration in the White 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 mamaw story.
Now, my mamaw died shortly before I left for Iraq in 2005.
2005 and when we went through her things we found 19 loaded handguns.
Now The thing is that they were stashed all over her house under her bed in her closet in the silverware drawer And
And we wondered what was going on, and it occurred to us that towards the end of her life, Mamaw couldn't get around so well.
And so this frail old woman made sure that no matter where she was, she was within arm's length of whatever she needed to protect her family.
That's who we fight for.
That's American spirit.
That's American spirit.
Vance.
It's like three hours each way.
Charlie, let me add more context on that because I was there.
You weren't there because you had to leave.
I saw him.
He came by himself.
Walks in.
This doesn't happen.
I remember him being by himself.
He walks in by himself.
Big hugs.
Hey, so good to see you.
Chat, chat, chat, chat, chat, chat, chat.
Yeah, we're just chatting, hanging out.
I had more people there than J.D.
Vance did.
My family was there.
He walked in.
It's not even that he drove himself up.
Normally he's like, oh I drove myself up.
Like a staffer will drive up with him or drive him.
Or anybody.
I mean you're a U.S.
Senator, man.
You're a staff of 15 people.
I had just come off stage when he went on to speak and it actually didn't occur to me.
I thought the staff was in the wings or something.
Because we were just in that little area.
Oh my gosh.
What?
And he walks in.
It doesn't even make any sense.
He gives our stuff.
He knows our people.
He talks to her.
He stopped.
We talked.
He is the number one most liked human being in turning point events.
Like not even close.
Meaning as far as easy to work with.
When I was pushing for JD, Lorne was like, please make it JD.
Please make it JD.
He's a wonderful human being.
Remember when we did the J.D. rally in Ohio?
Yes.
And, again, his team was awesome.
It was crazy.
It was absolutely crazy.
Got together before the election.
I cannot impress upon the audience this enough.
The vice president, vice presidential candidate we have right now.
He's one of the greatest human beings I've ever seen in politics.
The best vice presidential candidate we've ever had in my lifetime, bar none.
I'm trying to think one, like maybe, who's even better in like the last hundred years?
Ever.
Blake's gonna say Nixon.
Teddy Roosevelt.
I have my Nixon now signed over there that I picked up.
You're right.
You know we're a block away from where Teddy Roosevelt was shot?
In the Constitution.
So the thing I do want to say about J.D.
though is that I saw today was I remember people were asking me when he walked out on the Floor, whether or not he was going to speak in, and I believe he's slated to speak on Wednesday night, and I remember I was looking at him, and from my vantage point, you know, I wasn't nearby, but I could see him enough to see his face, and I was looking and I could see, I was like, I don't think he can speak right now.
Because you could see he had this look on his face with just tears in his eyes, and just that choked up, you know, smiles and being polite, he was with the Ohio delegation, but I mean, you could tell that he, in his head, he was thinking about, it seemed to me, just reading his face, he looked like he was thinking, how did I get here?
How did I get here?
And he's been public about his story, he's been public about his very not easy childhood.
And all of a sudden to see that.
His book came out eight years ago.
He's not somebody... It wasn't about him.
I could tell it wasn't about him.
Here at the RNC, thankfully we're getting rid of this old guard.
The schemers and the plotters and the planners are abundant here.
The cockroaches.
Where it's all about an angle, because I want to be dog catcher, then I'm county commissioner, and then I'm state rep, and then I'm congressman, and then I'm chair of this, and then a senator, and then one day I could become president in my own crazy drama in my own mind.
J.D.
Vance ran as the Senate.
He was pulling at like 2% for like forever.
We endorsed him right out of the gate.
We endorsed him as he came to our office.
We told the story today.
He came to our office, and this is what happened.
This is literally what happened.
Came to our office, spent basically two days at our office.
Just hanging out.
Hanging out.
Like, tell me about how you guys do stuff.
And, like, literally we were telling him.
Super curious.
Super curious.
He would ask us questions like, what would Turning Point do in this situation?
Or like, what is, what do you guys think about, like, literally, Just normal conversation and I was really impressed because I mean he's like my age right so he's like he's like my age so it's like talking to you know we're the same age so we're all the same age so it's like it's like talking to your friend and he left and Charlie and I sat down and we were talking about this we're like I think we have to endorse him.
Like he's, I was like, because we had just like started thinking about endorsements.
The amount of enemies I created from that endorsement.
I mean, right, Tyler?
Well, this is what happened.
So this is the story.
So we're like, I think we have to endorse this.
So I'm like, okay, we'll put together a graphic because we hadn't really started endorsing anyone at Turning Point Action at all.
And so I told our team that was really small at the time because we hadn't grown.
This was before, like anything, we had started building a team.
And I said, put together an endorsement graphic.
And the team put together an endorsement graphic and tweeted it out immediately on accident.
Oh, wow.
On accident not that we didn't want to endorse him.
We wanted to endorse him but we weren't ready to press the button.
I was going to call Josh Mandel.
I was going to call the other candidates as our policy and let them know we're not endorsing you.
You know.
And like all our Ohio contacts and just like let everybody know.
Donors.
And call donors and stuff like that.
I lost so many donors over that JD endorsement.
It was immediate.
And so Charlie calls me.
He's like, I just got like 50 phone calls from donors.
What is going on?
Like, what is going on?
I was like, of course, we want to do this, but you have to let me run traps on them.
And I was like, Charlie, just tell them.
I was like, Charlie, it was a total accident, but like we just should just live with it at this point.
And we did.
And we stuck with it.
And we were like the first endorsement out of the gate.
We were like one of the first ones they got.
When he was at like one or two percent.
And then I went, while Erika was seven months pregnant, I campaigned with JD for half of a week with him in the primary.
Because I was like, JD, I'm going to have no help in the general, right?
I want to see you become a senator more than anything else.
Because I literally said, I was like, this guy is the future of the party.
We were all in.
In the 2022 midterms.
We had to be, because everyone got so angry about it.
On the night of one of the worst nights ever, the 2022 midterms, when it was just like, that was the only consolation prize.
We were like, J.D.' 's a senator!
Woo!
Sucks.
Right?
And we were like, at least we got this done.
And, because I saw in him what we've been lacking, is like, he understands the MAGA agenda.
He is one of you.
He's from that part of the world that has been forgotten and looked over.
He broke through.
You don't get enough credit though, Charlie, because like, you could have got really We could have waited.
We could have not done anything.
And I just still remember sitting there and it was one of those moments.
Again, there's like God moments.
Clearly, we're here, you know, where we're at.
Where you were like, we just have to endorse him.
And then, again, you don't get enough credit for this, but you were one of the first people to go do stuff with him, right?
But that led, these kind of things lead to, you know, other endorsements and things like that.
And it like helps build You know, you live in activism.
That's what we do at Turning Point Action.
It's activism, right?
So building that activist space behind a person and voices that matter.
I mean, look, we're here today now with an incredible, the best ever VP candidate that we could possibly get.
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39 years old.
Kamala Harris is not much further behind.
For half a 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. Donald Trump reversed decades of betrayals inflicted by Joe Biden He created the greatest economy in history for workers.
It really was amazing.
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 roof.
And just imagine what he's going to do when we give him four more years.
Four more years!
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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.
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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 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 cartels sent fentanyl across the and China and the cartels sent fentanyl across the border, adding addiction to the 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.
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 by an 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're 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 USA." - "Made in the USA." - Let's just be like, Blake, I want to get this direct question to you because Trump was being pressured.
Again, let's talk about stereotype, stereotypical, like what people think Trump is, what Trump actually is.
People think Trump is very manipulatable, that Trump will just cow to like a small collection of certain people on TV and or donors interests.
This shows that's actually not true.
Donald Trump really kind of gave the finger to a lot of people by doing this.
Like, a lot of people.
Yeah, a ton.
And the pressure went up and up and up and up the whole time.
And they're all thinking, OK, we can get our hooks in him over this or that.
And I think it really is a testament to his instincts, as you said.
And his courage.
His courage.
Well, we saw that on Saturday.
Can I ask a question?
I want to have Blake finish.
But I think he really has those just Those very powerful raw instincts and those guided him the whole way on this, where he's thinking, as you said, What will it look like at the convention?
What will it look like for our ticket?
What does it look like for our movement?
And what do the people pushing him look like versus what do the people who are against him look like?
And I don't just mean physically, but also what are they saying?
What have they done?
What has been their standing in the entire movement since I've started running?
And I think all of that is working in his head as he's approaching this decision.
There is one thing that I would like to get across before we say that, and we've all kind of talked around it, and I'll put it to Charlie, because Charlie, you, you know, blah, blah, blah, had the vision for Turning Point, et cetera, et cetera, but seriously, this is a moment where Trump came in, and Blake, as you say, this is a risk, this is a gamble, but he's in a moment where the odds are kind of in his favor, and as a true entrepreneur knows, that
You bet big when you're in a moment like that.
He's betting on the future with this, because it's a generational pick.
Totally right.
I will say, though, that even if Trump was behind in the polls, J.D.
makes the most sense politically.
I don't think Rubio wins you that many votes.
I don't necessarily mean polls.
I just want to be clear, because the way that Fox was talking about it today drove me nuts.
I was throwing stuff at the TV.
I didn't actually see much of it.
A lot of sour grapes.
Well, it goes back to what you talked about earlier.
Karl Rove.
Which is what we talked about.
If you want a man to vote, J.D.
is your guy.
Yeah, exactly.
Wait a second.
Also, you want to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.
That's it.
The whole race is over.
Nominate someone from that region of the world.
And they literally said, well, this is a mark of a very overconfident candidate.
Wait, hold on a second.
And finally, you know what the data is screaming at us?
Please put someone on the ticket under the age of 50.
Please.
And now we have it.
Totally.
So, they have literally... Two JG Vance's are still younger than Joe Biden.
Oh, that's a great tweet.
That's a great tweet.
No, J.B.
Vance... Oh, that's great.
It's true.
It's true.
Yeah.
J.B.
Vance... Daisy, tweet that.
I love that.
Oh my gosh.
But J.D.
Vance is our Obama- He has lived two lifetimes.
Our Obama-esque candidate.
And here's the reason why, and this is what Obama- No, he is our Obama.
J.D.
Vance is our Obama.
I don't want to get clipped.
Yes, exactly.
I don't want to get clipped.
No, we're getting clipped on that one.
Definitely.
Because we said this on ThoughtGrid before, I said that.
But J.D.
Vance is doing what for us, what Obama did for them, in that Obama campaigned to a base of voters that had never been campaigned to before, and expanded their pool.
I get what you're saying.
Just so we are clear, and I'm going to say this publicly and privately, if we are to win the presidency, and if J.D.
wants to run in the future, his immediate goal needs to be in voter registration, 501c4 build-out, of making the coalition permanent.
Not just Trump.
This goes back to the Elon money, though.
What you just talked about.
If we do it right.
If we do it right, J.D.
Vance, because he's such a strategic, smart thinker, say, you have an opportunity, because of the Teamsters thing, muscular class, low-prop voters, to do what the Dems did with Obama, where they all of a sudden found 15% of new Americans that they've held on to pretty well, honestly.
And then Trump resurrected that.
Well, they've also been increasing that number of new Americans as a way to... And we need our own amalgamated bank, and we need our own... But that's the smart that J.D.
will give us that all everybody else wouldn't have.
Us being the movement.
Now, we won't agree on every issue, of course, not even in this room.
Thank you.
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 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 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, it is strong and as proud and as great as ever. it is strong and as proud and as great as 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 re-elect Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.
Thank you.
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 promise you this.
I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from.
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. - I cannot impress upon the audience enough.
You have a good, smart person.
That is one of the hardest combinations of things to find.
Because you can have a good person who's really dumb.
We know a lot of those people.
And that's fine.
Because smart does not equal good.
And then there's a lot of evil, smart people.
The Republican Party has a lot of evil, smart people.
Can I just comment on how many creatures are walking around this thing?
They have tentacles and claws.
I could tell stories like that.
We have all week and all of a sudden I'm like, I hate you.
And I've been like really behaved.
But Jonah Goldberg called me an anti-Semite on CNN tonight.
Unbelievable.
Of all the things to call Charlie Kirk, pro-Israel.
There's plenty of things to call Charlie Kirk.
I call Charlie Kirk half of them.
I am too pro-Israel.
He is literally one of like five people who have been harassed in public for being too pro-Israel.
And CNN did a five minute thing about how I'm anti-Semite.
Yeah, yeah.
Even including Jones, probably.
Buffalo Wings and Jonah Goldberg are my two... If I see Jonah Goldberg, I'm gonna confront him.
It's sort of like, compare this... I was thinking about this earlier today, and I was just like, what is so... I'm having a great time, it's a great convention, et cetera, but there's something that just felt a little bit off in the back of my head, like, as I'm walking around, and I realize what it is.
It's like, this isn't a Turning Point event.
And, you know, a Turning Point event... That's very nice.
No, no, no, it's like...
There's a vibe, it's vibrant, it's looking to the future, and it's like all of the things that, you know, that people are trying to say here, but Turning Point just does it.
It just is the future, as opposed to being like, we're the future.
But I do have to say though, Charlie, your choice of the all-seeing eye and the giant pyramid behind you on stage was just absolutely masterful.
Hold on, you want more text messages?
This is a good one.
Let me see this here.
Sorry, because we were here just blowing you up, man.
We were like, Charlie is going full Illuminati!
No, no, no, no.
This is so good.
You can't do this.
Bro, WTF, is this the Illuminati that took this over?
Yes!
Period imagery.
Might consider tweaking.
Now if this means we'll all be able to join, then I'll reconsider what I just said.
But WTF.
And literally I sent a picture of Marjorie Taylor Greene coming out of the pyramid.
Ladies and gentlemen, there was a fight between the Freemasons and the Illuminati.
I mean, I was like, okay, come on, so was my face literally coming out of the... No, no, no, you were like the base of the pyramid?
What is Twitter saying?
Is Twitter commenting on it?
Um, Charlie, it's not great.
The imagery.
The speech was fine.
I tried to tell people.
Anyway, I thought the speech delivery was what I could control, and I have the receipts!
I have the receipts!
It's like, hey guys, how about, I don't know, Old Glory!
The red, white, and blue!
The Star Spangled Banner!
Anyway, I want to say, all kidding aside, I'm very touched to the convention that they had me in a primetime slot.
They didn't have to do that.
They gave me Like, a lot of time, more than most people, so that was very touching.
I was on the floor, and... Good energy?
You got the most applause out of just about anybody.
So, I think it was you and the governor from Virginia.
Yunkin?
Yunkin did great.
Byron got some, too.
Byron did well.
Yeah, but Byron did the slow walkout.
He does the Byron thing where he goes, you know.
Oh, that was very slow.
It builds the applause line.
Alright, you can't do that like Byron.
I'm hungry.
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Check it out.
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Jack, your book's doing amazing.
Unhumans is doing great, racing up the charts.
By the way, something that I, for my own personal reasons, up until today didn't actually want to make a huge deal out of, but one of the blurbs that we got on the back is actually J.D.
Vance.
Wow, that's a big deal.
There you go.
And one of the things that, and I, you know, I kind of knew this was in the works, and you know, there were a few names that I was thinking about.
You know, when you're getting blurbs on a book, you Reach out to a few folks that you know, and I was like, I don't want to, you know, use like a personal relationship or something to, you know, ask for that.
But some of the guys said, no, but he really speaks to this stuff.
And I said, well, there's no way that he would do it because, you know, he's under consideration.
We reached out, they said yes right away.
They said yes right away.
That is Illuminati stuff though.
Well, then, yeah, I had to perform this like ritual with like the, you know, there were a lot of trees.
I don't know.
It's so cool.
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