Trump’s VP pick Vance hails boss as fighter who cares at RNC
Al Jazeera
Vice presidential candidate JD Vance criticises Biden on support for free trade and wars overseas.
Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance has hailed the former president’s defiant response to his attempted assassination in a rousing speech to the Republican National Convention, casting this boss as a tough fighter who also cares deeply about the United States and its people.
Accepting the nomination for vice president at the RNC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, the Ohio senator largely eschewed aggressive rhetoric in favour of an upbeat message, invoking Trump’s reaction in the moments after he was shot during a campaign rally on Saturday as proof of his leadership and love of country.
“What did he call for us to do with our country? To fight, to fight for America. Even in his most perilous moment, we were on his mind,” Vance said.
“His instinct was for us, for our country, to call us to something higher, to something greater, to once again be citizens who ask what our country needs from us.”
Vance, who described Trump as an “idiot” and “reprehensible” in the leadup to the 2016 election, said the tycoon-turned-politician had endured “abuse, slander and persecution” to serve his country.
