Vice President JD Vance discusses his visit to Union State in DC, stopping crime, bringing peace to Ukraine, building the economy, and third-party politics on “The Ingraham Angle” with host Laura Ingraham on the FOX News Channel.

LAURA INGRAHAM, HOST: So your pal Gavin Newsom calls this an abuse of power, that this is just a power grab, and this is all stunt for show, and that you all are going to roll through other cities, you’ve heard things about martial law is going to be declared into that, you say? VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Well, first of all, how is it a power grab or how is it a stunt when we’ve already declined murders by 35% in nine days? How many people are living and breathing today because Donald Trump had the willpower to say, you know what, we’re sick of D.C. being a home to lawlessness, we’re going to bring some public order back to the nation’s capital. So what I would say to Gavin Newsom or to anybody else in some of these big blue states or big blue cities is, you can have law and order, you can have common decency, you can have public spaces that young families can go to again. Tell you a story, Laura, a couple of years ago, the last time I was in Union Station, I took my little kids there to get lunch, and they were being screened at by homeless people, not compassionate to the homeless people to let them just fester when they clearly have mental health problems, not compassionate to young families to not be able to go into one of America’s great public spaces without being screened at by a person clearly suffering. LAURA INGRAHAM: Why are Democrats doing this? VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: I don’t know. Why is this a political strategy? I have thought about this so often and so many times. I don’t know why Democrats seem to love public disorder and chaos almost as a political ideology. And I think that part of what’s going on is Democrats have gotten so divorced from the communities that they allegedly serve that they don’t realize the gross majority of residents in DC, they want to walk through Union Station and just have a bite to eat or enjoy the space with their families. They don’t realize that so many people have been absolutely terrorized by Democrat crime policies, and so maybe they just don’t make the connection between what Gavin Newsom says and the fact that places like DC or Los Angeles have some of the highest murder rates in the world.

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