tv Campaign 2024 Sen. JD Vance Campaigns in Shelby Township MI CSPAN August 8, 2024 6:18am-6:59am EDT
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[applause] >> good morning. it's a beautiful morning in shelby township. i appreciate their kindness but most of all i appreciate what they do every single day to support this community, and really they've opened my eyes. we a briefing backstage and it really opened my eyes about what's going on even in communities like shelby township and wind is so important for president trump and i to back the blue and make it possible
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for our law enforcement officers to do their job rather than kamala harris who wants to make it harder for them to do their job, wants to defund them and make it more difficult for them to keep us safe. we've got to vote her out of office and not give her a promotion. that is what our law enforcement needs. i want to give a few shout outs. we have the great congressman john james. he is back there and we all love john. he is a good guy and great friend of law enforcement. i know chairman peters is here. thank you for being here. another great former congressman but would make a better united states senator, mike rogers is here, another great ally of law enforcement.
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what i realized in talking to these police officers and especially to the folks watching on tv is the failure to protect our communities is a policy choice. it is a policy choice to defund the police which is what kamala harris wants to do. it is a policy choice to open up the southern border and allow migrant criminals to come into this community and make it less safe. it is a policy choice to not support people to suspend deportations and that is what kamala harris did. i heard about a criminal who was deported from this community who came back in and then raped an 11-year-old girl just in the past couple of months. i am the father of a two year old girl and i cannot imagine having a government that cares so little about you that they are letting people who come into our communities get deported and come back in and then they rape our children. that is a policy choice of kamala harris on deportation and let somebody like that into our community. it is policy choice to not prosecute people who sexually assault miners and kamala harris was the attorney general of
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california and made it a nonviolent crime to commit sex crimes with minors. shouldn't we want to throw people commit the most heinous crimes in our community in prison and throw away the key? and yet kamala harris is making it easier for them to get out of jail after they commit heinous crimes against children. my message to the american people and certainly to all of you gathered here today is we don't have to accept this from the government of the united states of america. remember, when president trump was in office, we deported illegal aliens. we were building the border wall which make it harder for illegal aliens to come in. when president trump was president we did not rent mass -- grant mass amnesty to allow them to come and our communities and harm our people and then stay here after the
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fact. we just need better leadership. it is so simple. i can't believe anyone would actually think you should open up the american southern border to all of these criminals, let them commit crimes in our communities and refused to deport them afterwards and that is exactly what kamala harris has done. i grew up in a community, in a place where when law enforcement wasn't able to do their job, it was the poor kids in my community who grew up like i did who suffered the most. if you are wealthy you can afford a gated community and you can afford private security. when the police are not empowered to do their job, it is the most vulnerable people in our community who suffer. we saw that in 2020 with the summer riots with the new vice presidential nominee on the democratic side. they make an interesting dynamic duo. he was promoting writers and looters earning down the city and -- city of minneapolis and
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kamala harris was getting them out of jail. a vicious cycle if you own one of those businesses that was burned down and a very vicious cycle and if you are one of the poor kids needs law and order and needs common sense safety but doesn't have access to it because our government so often refuses to do its job. i want to do a couple of shout outs and encourage these folks if they are willing to make a couple of remarks and then i will close this out and take questions from the media. i got to meet jim. jim is the leader of one of the most important associations of law enforcement officers in the state of michigan. he told me about a 30 day period that they lost three police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty because kamala harris has sent out this message that it is open season on american police officers.
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that filters down to the criminals who hear it and know they are not going to suffer consequences for committing violent crimes and do exactly that and jim's police officers lost their lives because of that. i would love to have jim come up and say a few words.>> thank yo. we represent 12,000 law enforcement personnel on both peninsulas and feel like we are in a position to speak for a majority of those who work that job. the common thread in the room today was the regard for public safety. although the democratic candidate for president has not said as much, it is common for all candidates to claim an allegiance to law enforcement and public safety at election time. the truth is, it is what you say and do between elections that say and matter to us. we got the opportunity to see what president trump did as president and his choice here in
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j.d. vance, and we know that the other choice is not an option. the open borders that began in january 2021 changed a number of illegal aliens from entering the country from 300,000 a year to 300,000 a month at the beginning of 2023, 3 million a year. the trump administration had taken steps to limit those illegal entries by 500 miles of wall which the biden and harris administration knocked down portions of and left the materials laying on the road to rot. and then went tone -- went so far as to sue the state of texas trying to build a very to protect their own border. the best efforts of the best in law enforcement are failing. we have had three officers shot this year and they were not in gunfights. this was not an armed robbery. these are traffic stops and guys that were not on holster ring there guns when they were murdered. they were murders. shelby township has been touched
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by illegal aliens, and you have heard some of those examples. when people are allowed to enter the country illegally without consequence and maybe be rewarded for it, it leads some citizens who are here legally to think that type of behavior is ok. nobody surrenders anymore these cases we run into are not all illegals, but they are learning from illegals. no one surrenders. 70,000 police officers were assaulted last year, physically assaulted, 360 were shot but not killed and one and 60 were shot to death just in the last year. that is not right. there should be no excuse for that. that. eligible candidates for this job are getting more and more difficult to find. we have a great candidate for president. we know that because he served as president for four years. we were more prosperous and safer when he was here. he has chosen j.d. vance for his
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candidate for vice president, and every day we hear more things to convince us how much better it will be with j.d. vance in the chair with president trump. the police officers association of michigan is here today to say are members of 75 different counties wholeheartedly endorse the trump-vance ticket and are proud to do so and we need you to win. [applause] sen. vance: i was also hearing a little bit from peter. please take a few words. peter: thank you, senator.
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good morning, everyone. our prime mission is to maintain safety and protect the welfare of the citizens. it is one of the most important government responsibilities. without protecting the citizens, it is a failure in government, a failure to us. businesses and residents must rely on law enforcement to keep them safe and free from harm by others. as the macomb county prosecutor, i am committed to bringing wrongdoers to justice. all accused of a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. whether documented or undocumented, a person faces the same justice under the law. in macomb county, we follow the law. that means we honor the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agency with notice of an arrest of undocumented person or persons and are proud to work with our state and federal law partners as it relates to keeping the law and keeping the order. we need to be clear that bad actions by the undocumented should not have an effect on
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-- a chilling effect on those who came here legally, like our ancestors. however, the problem is that law enforcement is challenging enough without adding immigration issues into the equation. that should never have happened here. this onslaught of undocumented crimes has brought a drastic impact on our law enforcement partners. the cost of illegals entering this country who have broke our laws has put law-abiding citizens at risk. honest, hard-working, and good-spirited americans have long provided legal immigrants with food, shelter, and medical care, etc.
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but the unlawful, undocumented costs of law enforcement and incarceration is truly something that must be stopped before law-abiding citizens go broke paying for crimes to secure justice illegal immigrants while we also house, feed, and provide them with medical care, destroying the very fiber of american citizenship and the journey to the american dream. the laws of immigration are clear, but they are broken all too easily by allowing undocumented individuals into our state, into our country, who then bring harm to others. i have a tough time enough maintaining the law and order and providing justice to our own citizens here who want to follow the law. -- who run afoul of the law. taking on additional burden of those who come into this country illegally and commit crimes cannot be justified. thank you for the opportunity to highlight macomb county law
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enforcement, who protects and serves honorably the residents and citizens of the country and state. having said that, i am a proud product of immigrants who came here legally to achieve the american dream, and i applaud all who do. god bless everyone here, and god bless all of you who wear the uniform and the badge. thank you. [applause] sen. vance: look, these guys are doing a good job and doing everything they can to people the people safe. but we have to remember it's hard for them to do their job when they have a federal government making it so much harder. on day one, kamala harris, our border czar, suspended deportations and proposed mass amnesty and stopped building
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donald trump's border wall and proposed giving health care benefits and a whole host of other benefits to illegal aliens, encouraging them to come to our country. and now we are dealing with the consequences for it, even in places like shelby township, which the media would tell you is far away from the southern border and its problems, and geographically it is, but it is not far away from its problems. i just heard today in the last couple of months of a mother and daughter who were enjoying their day in shelby township and you had an illegal alien plow into them and kill this innocent mother and daughter. i talked about this poor 11-year-old who had a heinous crime committed against this poor girl by an illegal alien, a person who was deported and should not have been in this country in the first place. you can go through the list of things happening here and the simple message is, we can do so much better. to the american people, i ask something very simple, give these guys a federal government that makes it easier to keep
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american communities safe and not harder. one of the most heartbreaking stories i have heard on the campaign trail, and i've only been at this a couple weeks, but one of the most heartbreaking was yesterday, from two young kids, both teenagers. the youngest has been in for foster homes, and they have been bouncing around because their mother and father took fentanyl that was almost certainly not in -- brought in by the mexican drug cartels and that orphaned these children. to the american people, who have a chance to choose a better path in november, i ask you to choose the candidate who will stop the fentanyl from coming into our communities, stop our parents from losing their lives to this terrible fentanyl overdose, and stop the children from dying as well. i would ask you to vote for a candidate who wants to support our police officers, not make their lives harder. i ask you to support a candidate wants to make it easier to deport illegal aliens and not harder. i ask you to support the
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candidate who has shown he can deliver security to our streets. we just have to give him the opportunity to govern, and that is donald j. trump. the contrast could not be more clear between a candidate -- every law enforcement agency is telling you kamala harris is bad news and makes it harder to keep you safe. donald trump is good news, he makes it easier for them to keep you safe. we ought to give him a second term in office and all of our communities will be safer and more prosperous. thank you for all you do despite the policies of kamala harris, but i promise you in six months that calvary is coming and will make your life easier and not harder, but only if the american people support us and get us over the finish line this election. i want to take some questions from the media. before i do, just a couple of points. one, i would like to start with michigan reporters, people who are in this area. the second thing, while we are on the topic of reporters,
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kamala harris had another scripted set of remarks before a teleprompter yesterday. and today marks 17 days where she has been the presumptive democrat nominee and 17 days where she has refused to answer questions from the media. president trump will go anywhere, into hostile audiences and friendly audiences, and answer tough sessions. i will answer tough questions because i respect the american people enough that i should have to earn your vote and not be given your vote while i stand in the basement or in front of the teleprompter, which is what kamala harris has done. i asked the reporters to show a little bit of self awareness and demand that kamala harris actually do the job of a presidential candidate and speak to the media and reporters. until she does, you guys have to stop giving her a honeymoon and pretending she is something she isn't. this is a person who said she supports the police, yet she
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promoted policies to defund the police. she says she wants a secure border, but has been the border czar for 3.5 years while it has been wide open. she says she wants to have safe communities, and yet police who interested communities don't seem to like kamala harris. you have to ask tough questions and ask her why that is. the media honeymoon for the person who runs away from the american people is disgraceful. it is not just disgraceful for kamala harris, it is increasingly disgraceful for the media. with that, michigan reporters, we will start with you. >> iran and hezbollah are in the news. the world awaits for a threatened attack on israel. you said on a radio talkshow you suspected erring in-related -- iranian-related militias to be in the united states thanks to the current administration. what do we know what these agents and that terrorists and their leverage, and do you think they are planning an attack?
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if so, how would the trump administration, potential one, leverage the iranian -- manage that iranian leverage on the foreign policy? sen. vance: president trump, notice when he was in office, we did not have the world on fire and did not have a war in the middle east and europe and war threatening to break out in east asia. president trump was the candidate of peace and prosperity. he delivered peace all over the world and would do it again as president of the united states. what is going on in israel highlights the weakness of the kamala harris administration. she said she wants the war in israel to be over with and wants to minimize civilian casualties. i want those things, too. why isn't she giving israel the weapons it needs to minimize civilian casualties and end this quickly? the best thing for the united states of america is for israel to end the war and destroy hamas and rebuild the abraham accords of president trump so that the
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sunni arab states and israelis conform original dashcam form a -- can form a regional counterbalance to iran. that is in the best interest of our country, israel, and telling that kamala harris refuses to do what she needs to do to keep america and its allies safe. the final point i will say is yes, i believe there are iranian-backed militia groups in this country right now because we know thousands of people have come across the u.s. southern border that have ties to terrorism. well, it really endangers your country, and i fear we will have a bad headline and a lot of people who could lose their lives because kamala harris refuses to keep terrorists out of this country. it is disgraceful, but highlights the fact that unless you have a border, there is no peace and no security for american citizens even in places as far north as shelby township, michigan. other questions? >> "detroit free press."
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when trump was at the nabj conference, he was asked whether you would be ready to assume the presidency on day one, and he responded by talking about how the vice president picked doesn't really impact the election outcome. was that the response you were hoping for? sen. vance: what the president had said, and i agree, is that most are voting at the top of the ticket. tim walz is a crazy radical, he allowed rioters to burn down the city. but most will be voting for kamala harris. he said it before i was the pick and after and he is right. on the vice presidential issue, it is interesting what tim walz says about kamala harris. tim walz is a person, again, who promoted rioters burning down the biggest city in his estate. this is a guy who wants to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens, a guy who wants to take the children away from their parents if those parents don't consent to sex changes for minors. this is a radical human being who comes from the far left wing of the democrat party. what kamala harris is telling
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all of us by selecting tim walz is that she bends the knee to the far left of the democrat party. she has done it every time in the government and in her selection of vp nominee, and she will do it if they give her promotion to the president of the united states. we don't have to guess what she believes. the fact that she keeps on leaning on the far left people in the democratic party tells us who she is and what she stands for. sir? >> given the policy speech on immigration today, what is the plan from the trump team to execute this mass deportation? what will that look like and how will you make it happen? sen. vance: it is simple. the first thing you have to do and the first thing president trump will do is stop the massive flow of illegal aliens into the country in the first place. you have to stop the bleeding before you can fix the problem. we still have thousands of people coming across the border illegally every day. the first thing you do, you re-implement deportation, and
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finish construction of the border wall, and stop proposing mass amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. that solves the majority of the water problem on day one. president trump already did it and he will certainly do it again. what do you do with the people already here? i think it's important to send a message that if you come to this country illegally come if you plow into an innocent mom and their daughter and they lost their lives because of your actions, the message from the trump administration is simple, pack your bags because in four months you are going home. we do not consent to an invasion of the country for millions of people who shouldn't be here, and we are going to deport people. now, you start with those who are the most dangerous. you start with the most violent criminals, make it hard for businesses to hire illegal aliens, and work your way down from there. that is how you solve the problem of the people who are here. if you are not willing to tell at least some of the people who are in this country illegally that you have to go back, you don't have a real border policy. and unfortunately, that is what kamala harris has given this
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country. sir? >> governor walz suggested that because of your ivy league education and silicon valley backing that you yourself are part of the elite. what are your first impressions of that framing to the american people? sen. vance: i came from a family where nobody in my family had ever gone to law school. i grew up in a poor family. the fact that tim walz wants to turn it into a bad thing that i actually worked myself through college, through law school, and made something of myself -- to me, that is the american dream. if tim walz wants to insult it, i think that is frankly pretty bizarre. now look, what really bothers me about tim walz is not even the positions he has taken, although certainly he is a far-left radical. what really bothers me as a marine who served this country in uniform -- when the united states marine corps, when the united states of america, asked me to go to a rack and serve my country, i did what they asked me to do, and i did it honorably. i am very proud of that service. when tim walz was asked by his country to go to iraq, he
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dropped out of the army and allowed his unit to go without him, a fact that he has been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the people that he served with. i think it is shameful to prepare your unit to go to iraq, to make a promise that you were going to follow through, and then to drop out right before you have to go. i also think it is dishonest. something -- again, if you guys ever have an opportunity to ask tim walz or kamala harris a question, he made this interesting comment that theharris campaign put out there, which i think they are regretting now. he was making a point about gun control. he said we shouldn't allow weapons that i used in war to be on america's streets. i wonder, tim walz, when were you ever in war? what was this weapon that you carried into war, given that you abandoned your unit right before they went to iraq? he has not spent a day in a combat zone. what bothers me about tim walz is the stolen valor garbage. do not pretend to be something you are not. if he wants to criticize me for
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getting an ivy league education, i'm proud of the fact that my mamaw supported me. i was able to make something myself. i would be ashamed if i was him and i lied about my military service like he did. sir? [applause] can you speak a little louder? yes, sir. >> i want to talk a little bit about race. i was at the national association of black journalists conference where president trump made some attacks on vice president harris's biracial heritage. you are married to an indian american woman. you have biracial children. how do you explain his attacks and what was your reaction to his attacks as a father of biracial children? sen. vance: i am the father of biracial children. actually, my wife is here today. my kids are back home with my aunt today. i was not bothered at all by what president trump said. i did not take it as an attack on kamala harris's biracial background. what i took it as is an attack on kamala harris being a chameleon. she pretends to be one thing in front of one audience, something
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else in front of another audience. i think he was observing the basic foundational reality that kamala harris pretends to be something different depending on which audience she is speaking to. now, she has been able to hide this a little because for the past couple of weeks she only speaks in front of the teleprompter. she never gives unscripted remarks. and she is hidden from the american media and the american people. but we know she is a chameleon, we know she is a person who promised to defund the police and now wants to pretend she is a tough prosecutor. she said she would be our border czar, yet we have an open border. she said she would bring common sense and lower inflation, and yet she cast the deciding vote that raised interest rates, raised health prices, and raised -- raise home prices, and raised food prices. donald trump said something really simple, totally inoffensive, but obviously true to me, which is that kamala harris is a chameleon. she is a fake, and the american people have to look at a record
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if we want to know how she stands on the issues, because her words simply cannot be trusted. sir? >> how can you fake your race? if she is both indian and black, how can she fake her race? sen. vance: she says who she is based on the audience she is in front of and that is who she is and that is who she has always been. >> you have been criticized as being a little serious, a little angry sometimes. what makes you smile? what makes you happy? sen. vance: well, i smile at a lot of things including bogus questions from the media, man. [laughter] look, i think if you watch a full speech that i give, i actually am having a good time out here and i am enjoying this. but look, sometimes you got to take the good with the bad. right now, i am angry about what kamala harris has done to this country and to the americans on -- the american southern border. most people in our country can be happy-go-lucky and enjoy things sometimes, and can turn on the news and recognize that what is going on in this country is a disgrace. and if what kamala harris has done on the southern border and
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what kamala harris has done to raise the price of groceries and housing, if that does not bother you, i think my message to the -- i don't think you have a pulse. look, i think my message to the american people is very simple on this. president trump in particular has the best sense of humor of anybody i have ever seen in american politics. he loves to joke. he loves to make fun of everybody that is out there, and i think you've got to do that from time to time. but he is also a guy who is very frustrated with what kamala harris has done to this country. both of those things could be true. i think most americans can joke around but also be pissed off. about the direction of this country. >> right here in shelley -- shelby township there is going to be a mother and father struggling to pay their bills, pay the utility bills. when you think of the prosperity of a trump administration, speaking to that person, what does that look like? sen. vance: i am 40 years old.
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i just had my 40th birthday, which i am not too happy with. but i am 40 years old, so for my entire life, there is this chart that had wages below corporate profits and below the size of government, and there was one 4-year period during my entire life where wages were going up, especially for people at the bottom and people in the middle. that was the four years when donald trump was president. my message to people who are struggling is, first of all, i know what it is like to be struggling. my mamaw once negotiated with a meals on wheels person so she could get more field from meals on wheels -- more food from meals on wheels so she could feed me and her. i certainly know what it is like to deal with skyrocketing grocery prices and skyrocketing rent. the solution to it is to give people higher paychecks. the solution is to give people better take-home pay. the solution is to unleash american energy so that people are not going to the grocery and seeing that eggs are 50% more than they were a year and a half
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ago. you have got to bring down prices to give people basic prosperity, and the way you do that is really unleashing american energy, unleashing america's farmers, and not spending like a drunken sailor, which kamala harris has done during her time in office. we really do know the least of these -- the bible calls them the least of these -- who have suffered the most under kamala harris. under president trump and i, that is priority number one, to make groceries and gas and rent more affordable for normal americans. if you work hard and play by the rules, this simple principle should apply. if you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to live a good life in this country. unfortunately, a lot of people are working hard and playing by the rules, but they cannot afford groceries and cannot afford rent because of bad policy in washington, d.c. we are going to change that. one last point on this. i don't think we talk about this enough in the media or in
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politics, but housing is through the roof, and housing is destroying people's savings and their ability to put a good roof over their kids' heads. why is housing so expensive in this country? housing is so expensive in this country for two reasons. number one, kamala harris pursued policies that raised interest rates, which makes mortgages unaffordable for normal americans. and number two, we have let in 20 million illegal aliens who are competing with americans for scarce housing. you do those two things and you see the rent crisis you see in michigan and ohio and pennsylvania. it is a disgrace. president trump and i promise we will fix it. it is simple public policy. it has got to be smarter and look out for americans first. >> minnesota is a state that is going to be won on the margins, expected to be a close race. when president trump was in detroit a few months back, talking about black voters, he
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was trying to tie president biden to the crime bill, to criminal justice reform. you are here with a tough on crime, mass deportation message. do you think that is going to land with voters of color the campaign will need to win? sen. vance: my message to voters of color is very similar to my message to voters everywhere in michigan, which is we want to redeliver peace and prosperity. voters of color really benefit when wages are rising. voters of color benefit when normal people can afford to buy a home. we want to bring back the common sense policies. but if you look at the statistics, when you allow rioters to set fire to a city, or when police are not empowered to do their job, it is voters of color that suffer disproportionately. it is voters of color that benefit the most from public safety, and we have to get some common sense back. now, that does not mean we don't want police to have good relationships. tough on crime does not mean tough on every person who lives in a neighborhood with high crime. but when i talk to people in neighborhoods with high crime,
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often, not always voters of color, they love the police. they have got good relationships. there are bad apples here and there, but most people recognize the police are there to keep them safe. if we don't make it possible for police to lock up the bad guys, the murderers, the armed robbers, then it is very often black voters, especially in the state of michigan, who suffer the most. one thing that really bothers me about the left's narrative on criminal justice reform and a lot of their attacks on police is again that it is very often black voters who suffer the most when the police are not empowered to do their job. we have got to change this. there is an idea that americans often forget, that the worst violent criminals -- it is a very small people who commit the most egregious and most violent crimes. nobody, black, white, or anything else, wants to do anything other than lock up the most violent criminals. you do that and you empower the police to do that, you solve a whole host of violent crime problems and voters of color benefit from that as much as
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anybody. sir? >> nbc news. you have repeatedly suggested that the only reason kamala harris did not pick josh shapiro to be her running mate is because of his jewish faith. do you have any evidence to support that assertion, that a person who is married to a jewish man is somehow antisemitic or bowing to anti-semites? sen. vance: i reject the premise of that question. i did not say that was the only reason kamala harris did not choose josh shapiro, you should take a little less dnc talking points when you ask your questions. ask a real question. i have suggested that kamala harris was motivated, or her at least party was motivated, by antisemitism. the evidence i offer for that is what dozens of democrat ic activists said in the run-up to her selecting her nominee. there were multiple grassroots activists, media personalities, multiple people with influence in the democrat party, who suggested she should not choose josh shapiro because of his ethnic background. look, i don't care what you're asking -- what your ethnic background is, i know donald trump does not care what your
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ethnic background is. i do not want to live in a country where we are choosing the next vp is based on skin color or ethnic heritage. choose based on merit. the fact that so many prominent leaders on the far left felt empowered to talk about shapiro's ethnic heritage is a disgrace and i think a scandal for the democratic party. yes, i do. last question. ma'am, in the blue and yellow? >> in michigan there is about 91,000 immigrants, which counts for about 1.8% of our population. what do you say to people who say immigration is not that big of a problem? sen. vance: well, i appreciate the question. i would say that, interestingly, legal immigrants often suffer the most from illegal immigration. if you look at the effect on legal immigrants' wages, the jobs they are working in, and the communities that are most affected the public safety problems caused by illegal immigration, my message to legal
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immigrants was, one, we love to have you. you are very welcome. we are happy you came through the proper channels. but this illegal immigration problem is very often -- it falls hardest on legal immigrants more than anybody else. my message is our anti-illegal immigration platform is going to make your life better. it is going to make your wages go up. it is going to make public safety better. i am married to the daughter of legal immigrants. i believe that legal immigration -- i do believe in my heart that legal immigration can enrich this country. but not illegal immigration. it has made us less safe. it has driven down wages for working americans, and it has made our communities less prosperous. we have got to stop this craziness. president trump and i are going to do it. on that topic, i know that was the last question, but let me offer one final observation about these guys in the back. law enforcement is fundamentally a team effort. you need the federal government to do what it needs to do. you need the governments to be able to keep people safe.
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what is so broken about american public safety, it is not our local police officers, who are doing great things. it is not our state leadership, who is often doing great things. it is the federal government allowing criminals who should not be here, supporting sex trafficking and drug trafficking at our southern border. it is making these guys' jobs so much more difficult, and in ways we don't even always see. i talked earlier to these guys behind me a little bit earlier. we talked about the fact that when they have illegal aliens and they have to provide food andorhose illegal aliens that is precious tax , dollars that don't go to hiring officers they need. we have been put in a zero-sum situation by kamala harris where we can prioritize the interests of american citizens and their safety, or we can prioritize the health benefits of illegal aliens. we have got to prioritize our own citizens. this crime problem is a policy choice of kamala harris. we can do so much better. elect donald trump and we will. god bless you guys, and thank you.
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