Vance: Democrats Don’t See Themselves as Your Advocates, They Exist To Fight For Fraud and Corruption
Vice President J.D. Vance spoke at a campaign-style event in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, criticizing Democratic leadership for defending illegal immigrants and recounting a moment from the State of the Union where Democrats did not applaud a line about prioritizing American citizens. “The entire Democratic Party, all of these policy disagreements, all of that stuff doesn’t matter compared to the fact that they don’t see themselves as your advocates, and Republicans, we do,” Vance said. “Now, I’m not saying that’s true of the Democrats all across our country.” “The Democrats that we have in Washington, D.C., they are a different breed,” Vance said. And we cannot fool ourselves that something has gone fundamentally wrong in that party. “Their reason for existing is to fight for fraud, to fight for corruption, and to fight for people who have no right to be in this country.”
VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: Unreal. Just absolutely unbelievable progress on so many of these issues, and we ought to talk about why is it that we got homicides so low? And I’ll give you two reasons. Number one, the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, happened to believe that we ought to be using federal power to support our cops instead of fighting against them. Isn’t that common sense? But we also believe that the best way to lower homicides and carjackings and other violent crime is to get the illegal alien criminals out of the United States of America, and that’s what we’ve been doing. And I just can’t get over the fact that Democrats are so passionate about defending the rights of illegal aliens over American citizens. It is the one thing that will get the Democrats really fired up. A few weeks ago, we had the State of the Union address, and like the Speaker of the House, I’m one of the people who has a very unique perspective into the State of the Union because I’m sitting directly behind the President of the United States. And maybe my favorite point in that whole speech is when he’s – and he actually added this line towards the end of the day before he gave the speech. But where he says, I’m going to say something, and I want you to stand up and applaud if you agree with it. And he says, we believe that the American government should serve the interests of the American people, not illegal aliens. Again, a layup for our friend Don Davis. He should have been up there clapping and cheering. Who could possibly disagree with that? But of course, he did nothing like the rest of the Democrats. But the funny thing about it is they were so miserable because they realized that we had them in a bind. You could tell even a few of them were looking around like, well, this is – like, we should be standing up and clapping for this. But like, what – is our leaders going to get mad at us? Is Nancy Pelosi going to – you know, going to take away some of our campaign money? You could tell they didn’t know what to do. And that’s maybe the biggest indictment of the modern Democratic Party. We talk about all these policies that you and I care about. We talk about lowering taxes on Social Security, about putting more money in your pocket. We talk about bringing tons of resources into this country to rebuild the American economy, public safety. All of this stuff matters. But the thing that maybe matters way more than any single issue is that Democratic leadership in Washington, D.C., they cannot stand up for the simple principle that they fight for you and not an illegal alien. They can’t stand up and clap for the fact that we’re going to go to war on fraud in this country like we’ve never done, instead of taking your hard-earned money and giving it to people who don’t deserve it. The entire Democratic Party, all of these policy disagreements, all of that stuff doesn’t matter compared to the fact that they don’t see themselves as your advocates, and Republicans, we do. Now, I’m not saying that’s true of the Democrats all across our country. I think there are a lot of Democrats like my Mamaw and Papaw or Democrats, conservative Democrats who love their country. But the Democrats that we have in Washington, D.C., they are a different breed. And we cannot fool ourselves that something has gone fundamentally wrong in that party. Their reason for existing is to fight for fraud, to fight for corruption, and to fight for people who have no right to be in this country.
