Speaking during a Wednesday, August 21 campaign stop in North Carolina, Senator and Trump 2024 running mate JD Vance sounded off on Vice President Kamala Harris, saying that she is unable to handle her self in anything approaching a real, important leadership capacity and that she wasn’t even elected by her party, but rather was appointed after Biden dropped out.
Beginning, he said, “Kamala Harris hasn’t won a single vote for the Democratic Party,” referring to the party coronating Harris rather than having elected her in a primary. Continuing, he roasted the Democrats for handing out camo Harris hats at the DNC, saying, “Democrats, they think they’ve cracked the code for how to appeal to normal Americans.”
Emphasizing just how absurd the whole hat thing was and how generally awful Tim Walz was, saying, “That’s their strategy for appealing to rural voters and veterans — is a camo hat with Kamala Harris’s name on it. Now you know what I think would appeal to rural voters and veterans? Kamala not having a running mate who lies about his service record. Why don’t we try that?”
Continuing, he emphasized just how awful the Kamala agenda is and noted why the DNC put her in the presidential slot, saying, “That is the record of Kamala Harris. Now remember, the party bosses installed Kamala Harris because they can control her. That’s all this is about. Her agenda is not an agenda for the American people. It’s an agenda for the people who have gotten rich off the decline of this country. And we are not going to take it, are we?”
He then emphasized how awful he sees many of her top supporters are, as they profit off things that are awful for America. He said, “It was Kamala Harris’s donors who got rich when we shipped millions of manufacturing jobs off to China and other countries. Americans, we got poor. Her donors got rich when America printed trillions of dollars to fund her green scam policies.”
On that same note, he argued that those same policies make things demonstrably worse for average Americans. He said, “But Americans, we paid higher prices for groceries and housing because of it, and now her party wants more power, and the way they’re going to do it is that she wants to give all those illegal aliens the right to vote. But out here in the state of North Carolina, we believe the only people who get to vote in our elections are the people who have a right to be here — not illegal aliens.”
Presenting Trump as the solution to Kamala’s awfulness, Vance said, “We need a president for the people, and that’s why we’re going to send Donald J. Trump back to the White House.” He continued, accusing Harris of “broken leadership,” saying, “Think of everything that this country has endured over the last four years of Kamala Harris’s broken leadership.”
Then, describing some of the Biden-Harris Administration’s awfulness, he said, “Prices are up and wages down. Our borders are wide open, but we’ve had a lot of factories closing down. Fentanyl is available on every street corner from North Carolina to Wisconsin, but it is impossible for young Americans to find an affordable home to raise their families in now.”
Reuting to Trump, he said, “Donald J. Trump represents something that so many in this country need right now, and I think it’s important to recognize that we need hope in the United States of America, hope that we can reignite this economy and bring back prosperity to American citizens.” He continued, “Hope that we can raise our kids in secure neighborhoods and safe streets. Hope that we can renew the patriotism that binds us as a country together, one nation under God.”
He then added, “Now, if we don’t have safety for our families, if we don’t have security for our country, we don’t have anything. And I’m a firm believer that when we talk about national security, national security starts right here at home, right here in the great state of North Carolina. And there’s been no greater area where Kamala Harris has failed to deliver peace and national security than at the American southern border.”
