from reporters and you guys are welcome to stay and watch me as i answer these questions. but i want to remind you that as much as the energy is really good in pennsylvania, and we've got a lot of good energy in pennsylvania, i think we'll win this state and win it in a big way. and by the way, we're not just winning pennsylvania just for president trump and j.d. vance, we're winning pennsylvania for dave mccormick running for the senate. let's get out there and support him. and for a lot of our great congressional candidates, and i know we have great state candidates running, too, but we're not going to do it unless we get out there and vote. i'm going to make three requests, three requests of every single person in this room. number one, first thing i'd like you to do is take out your phone, take it out right now.

take a photo of this event, take a selfie, a photo of me, whatever. post about it on social media or send it to your friends in a text message and tell them why you're voting for donald trump and remind them we have to get out and vote on or before november 5. that brings me to my second point. i'm not a fan, to be honest with you, election season over election day but donald trump has said this very well, it is what it is. and we've got to take advantage of all the methods we can to vote because if we're not doing it, we're giving ground to the other side. vote by absentee if you're not going to be in town. vote by mail if that's what you want to do. vote early. vote election day. just get out there and vote. i believe we've done more on the last few years of election integrity at the republican national convention so rest assured we're fighting every single day that your vote is going to count but only if you get out there and actually cast

it. everybody, make sure you get out there and vote. two more requests here. the third thing is i don't want just you to vote, i want everybody to get out there and get nine of their friends and family to the polls, too, because if you do that, look, pennsylvania could be decided by a couple thousand votes and none of us want to wake up november 6, this is nightmare fuel with the idea of a president-elect kamala harris. if you want to prevent that, don't just get yourself to the polls but your friends and family out there, too. every single one of us commit nine people in addition to yourselves to get out and vote. this is the final thing i want to say. i'm going to read the website to get it right. swampthevoteusa.com. jumpthevoteus

swampthevoteusa.com. check your polling information. track your polling information. we're going to win this election by working our rear ends off for it and getting out and voting. swampthevoteusa.com. check your registration and make sure we all get out there and vote. look, i think -- man, we're 19 days out and i'm feeling good about this election. i really think we're in a position to not just elect donald trump the next president but to take this country back in a very, very big and meaningful way, so let's do it. so i'm grateful to all of you being here and grateful for what you've already done. and most of all, i'm grateful we're all going to work our

butts off the 19 days and make donald trump the next president of the united states. god bless you all. thank you for having me. i'll take some questions from the reporters now. mr. vance: thank you all so much. we're not done yet. we'll have a little bit more fun. i ask we start with the local reporters. i'll only take four or so questions because i have to get on the road. but the first question, i don't know we have a microphone there. i assume we do. i love jesus. thank you, ma'am. it's always good to have that reminder, jesus loves every single one of us. that's an important thing. god bless you. first question.

reporter: hi, senator. hi, senator vance, my name is steven more from wtrf channel 7 in wild and wonderful wheeling, west virginia. now, the u.s. labor force participation rate is historically low among young men in particular. there are a lot of reasons for this from drug addiction, lack of education, mental health problems. how does this administration plan to address this issue and get our young people back to work so they can start families, buy homes, and participate in the american dream? mr. vance: yes, sir, a very important question and the most important way to get people back into the labor force is to make sure we've got good jobs and the dollar goes far enough to support a family in this country. if you want to get people a back to work, you've got to make sure when they earn a dollar, first of all, they get to keep as much of it as possible, which is why we want to lower focus' taxes. but second of all, a lot of people are not going to choose

to work if they work 40 hours a week, 50 hours a week and can't afford food or can't afford to buy a house. this inflation that we've experienced under kamala harris' leadership, we've got to make the dollar worth a dollar again and that's something donald trump and i are going to fight for every single day. now, a second thing we've got to do is we've got to promote more pathways in this country to the middle class. when i was growing up, what everybody told me, all my guidance counselors, all my teachers, they told everybody, you've got to go to college, you've got to go to college. well, here's the thing. now we're waking up and realize we have way too many basket weavers with a four-year college degree but not enough electricians or welders or enough people to build things in this country and that's got to change. so we want to make it easier, whatever you want to do, if you

want to go be a doctor, be a doctor. but if you want to work with your hands and build something in the greatest country in the history of the world, we have to make sure there are pathways available for people who want to do that. that's how we get people back engaged with the work force is we give them the training for the kind of jobs they want to do that will make our whole country better in the process. thank you for the question. reporter: good afternoon, nicole ford here with wpxi in pittsburgh. when it comes to pennsylvania, which county are you going to look at the margins first to know that you have won the state? mr. vance: that's an interesting question. look, i'm not a -- i'm a political candidate but not much of a political prognosticator. the only prognostication is pennsylvania will make donald trump the next president of the united states. i really do believe that. but look, i mean, the smart people who know this state will

tell you, you know, you've got to look at bucks county in the east and eerie county in the west. there are a couple really important counties we'll pay attention to. this, my friends, is why i'm so excited and optimistic about this race, if you look at the early voting numbers and look at how much redder pennsylvania has gotten in the last couple years, we are going to win this race so long as we work for it over the next 19 days. i really do believe that. but the final point i want to make about this is the reason why i think president trump's message resonates so well in pennsylvania, more, frankly, than republicans did from 20 years ago is that president trump believes in making things in america and stamping more product with the incredible label, "made in the u.s.a." and the only way -- look, pennsylvania has some of the proudest traditions of steel

manufacturing, of craftsmanship in the entire country, frankly, in the entire world. but we've gotten way too far away from self reliance in the united states of america. let me give you a statistic that scares the hell out of me and should scare every person in pennsylvania. china has 32% of world manufacturing g.d. that means the goods that are made, 32% of them are made in china. you know what the number is for the united states of america? 18%. that means china makes more stuff -- i'm talking about the pharmaceuticals that we put in the bodies of our children. some of the important weapons of the future, the computer chips. we've got to make more of our own stuff in the united states of america. the way to do that is lower regulations and lower energy costs for american businesses and to rebuild the great american middle class.

final point i'll make about this and this is where president trump gets the most criticism but also where president trump is the most right. if you are a business and you rely on foreign slave labor at $3 a day, the only way to rebuild american manufacturing is to say if you want to bring that product made by slave labor back into the united states of america, you're going to pay a big fat tariff before you get it back into our country. and don't -- my message to pennsylvaniaians, don't trust anybody, especially kamala harris when she tells you she's going to rebuild american manufacturing without forcing the chinese to pay a tariff, there is no way to do it unless you're fighting hard against the people stealing our jobs and stealing our manufacturing industries. you've got to do it. if you're not doing it, you're not serious about rebuilding the american middle class.

next question. reporter: hi, j.d., adam for the pittsburgh post gazette. you've raised questions about election security and integrity and if you think it cuts both ways. if you're leading in the popular vote nationally after election week do you think kamala harris should concede if she has similar concerns? mr. vance: whoever wins this election, and it's going to be donald trump and j.d. vance -- you know, we certainly expect to have a good election. we certainly expect to be congratulating the winner, and we certainly expect that winner is going to be us. look, can you say on the one hand you don't think big tech should be interfering in an election while at the same time respecting the results of the election. i don't think there's any inconsistency of that. i think american citizens have a right to be heard and american citizens have a right to have every legal ballot counted. we'll work on legislation while

in office which is the save act that makes it harder for illegal aliens to vote in american elections. and i think, like most people, most people in our country, whether they agree or disagree with me on any issue, they can admit we can have faith in the 2024 election and i do have faith in the 2024 election while assessing we can do a hell after lot better at the same time. both thoughts can be held in our heads the same time and is certainly true for the majority of the residents of this commonwealth. thank you. reporter: hi, i'm ryan with the pittsburgh tribute review. you talked a little bit about housing costs. i'm kind of wondering if you could elaborate more on the issues on dealing with the supply of housing. i know here in pittsburgh we have -- just like everywhere, we have a bad supply of housing. how do we boost that and address

that issue? mr. vance: important question. we have to talk about the supply issues and the demand issues. you asked about supply. we don't make enough houses. there's not a high enough supply of houses in the united states of america. what does it mean? lower energy costs to make it easier to build. that's why we say drill, baby, drill, and that's the most important point of lowering housing costs and get mortgage rates down so people can afford to buy a home when they find a home they like. and thirdly, you have to end the regulations that make it harder for people to build homes in the united states of america. we're the proudest building country in the world and we have to get back to that very proud tradition. but we also have to be honest. if you build five million new homes over the next three years but you import 25 million illegal aliens, the price of housing is going to go up. because when american homes don't go to american citizens, that is one of the biggest drivers of the increase in

housing costs. so here's the simple donald trump plan to reduce housing costs for american citizens, build more american homes but make sure they go to american citizens, not people who don't have the legal right to be here. we'll do just a couple more. reporter: with kdt news. trump talks about the enemy within. will trump use the military to go after people who oppose donald trump. mr. vance: of course not. [crowd booing] mr. vance: i'm glad you asked the question. it's so preposterous. first of all, the biggest problem we have in this country right now, because of kamala harris people can't afford housing and groceries. we have to fix that problem. that's why me and donald trump are running to bring back

prosperity to the american people. and we have 25 million illegal aliens, many who committed violent crimes who shouldn't be in the united states to begin with. by the way, those are the issues that pennsylvaniaians care the most about. when you go out and talk to them, you look at the polls. we ought to be talking about how to deliver peace and prosperity for the commonwealth of pennsylvania and that's what president trump and i are focused on. but look, the media picks up on this question when he makes this observation that we've also got to have law and order in our own country, too, because this is an important issue. do we remember the media loves to talk about january 6, and of course january 6, 2021, if you were violent and committed acts of violence, then you should be prosecuted for them. everybody believes that. but what they don't like to focus on, is months prior, $13

million was damaged and 20 lives were lost in the mass riots in this country in the summer of 2020. and what president trump has said quite directly, look, if that happens again, and you ever have people that think they cannot just exercise their first amendment rights but loot and riot and burn down american cities, we're going after them and going after them hard. we don't tolerate that crap in the united states of america. reporter: hi, kayley gunderson, channel 4 in pittsburgh. i know you touched on election integrity but i want to ask about mail-in voting. how do you reconciled former president donald trump and the party casting doubt in mail-in voting when the republican party

is encouraging supporters to vote by mail. mr. vance: let me say two things about that. first of all, as i said earlier, i don't love that we've gotten away with having an election day where everybody casts the same ballot and casts it on the same day. but again, the people of pennsylvania, through their elected legislatures, through the governor, have changed how this works. i'm not saying i prefer mail-in voting, i'm saying that mail-in voting is now here so let's deal with that reality and make sure our voices count just as much as the other side. that's all we're saying here. now, by the way, a number of international organizations, a number of folks have talked about the fact that mail-in voting can sometimes introduce problems, and we're fighting every single day to make sure those problems don't happen in pennsylvania or anywhere else in our country. here are the things you've got to do. you've got to make sure mail-in votes have the proper signature

matching. you've got to make sure mail-in votes are properly tracked to a real registered voter. there are all these things we can do and the republican party is fighting every single day, not just for our own voters but for everybody. we want every legal ballot to cast and count but we only want the legal ballots to count, not the illegal ballots. so we've got the election integrity underway whether you vote by mail or voting early or in person, your ballot is going to count. my message to everybody is get out there and vote because it's the only way we're going to send kamala harris back to san francisco where she belongs. so on that note, because we're going to have to hit the road here. and i'm very excited. my friends, my cousin who is

more like a little sister to me, is getting married tomorrow. let's give her a round of applause. we'll tell her that the people -- i'll tell my cousin bonnie rose, named after my mama, the thoughts, the prayers, the blessings, and the good wishes of the commonwealth of pennsylvania go with her on this new journey. [applause] i want to tell you a story. i've got so many stories and i have learned so much about our country over the last few weeks. people always ask me how i'm doing and i appreciate you asking but the answer is i'm doing as good as a person possibly could. because aside from being married from my beautiful wife and being a father to our three kids, the greatest honor of my entire life is to stand up here and ask all of you to make me your next vice president of the united states. it is a cool thing. it is a great honor.

[crowd chanting: jd] but one of the things that happens of course is you get to meet a lot of people. there is a woman that i met a few weeks ago as a matter of fact, she was just in one of these photo lines, you take photos with people before, and she was talking to me about how she was really hurting because she couldn't afford her groceries anymore. she was talking about the things they cut back on, the things they like to have in their house but they don't have anymore because they've got to make ends meet and they have to make do with what they have. she spent about 30 seconds telling me about how she was struggling to buy groceries and then she spent the next three minutes telling me that she prays for my family every day. she knew the three names of our beautiful kids and she prays for each one of them by name every single day. and she spent more time asking

me how i was than talking about her problems even though i'm the one who gets to run for vice president and she's worried about paying her bills. i've met so many people like that. you know it it's taught me? it's taught me we have a generosity of spirit among our people that i was not fully aware of until i excepted this incredible honor. i think that when you realize how great the people of the united states of america are -- [applause] and how beautiful of a country we have, i was in williamsport, pennsylvania just yesterday i believe, and we get off the plane and there is a mountain by the airport that is red and yellow and orange and green because of course pennsylvania is really beautiful but especially this time of year. and we've got the best natural resources. the chinese and the russians would literally kill for, sometimes they have, for the natural resources we have just

right here in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. and i realize that is frustrated as sometimes we get and certainly as frustrated as i get with the failure of kamala harris's leadership, we've got to remember, my friends, that the only thing that is truly broken about the united states of america is the failed leadership in washington, d.c. so over the next 19 days when you are feeling tired or you are sick of talking about the election, i want you to remember that woman who is working hard to elect donald trump and is worried that if he is not elected president she is going to go another four years where she is not able to afford her groceries. i want you to remember a kid like me were sometimes my mama wouldn't turn on the heat at night if times were especially tight. withrow a few extra blankets on

and just make do. i would like you to remember that the basic principle that every american citizen deserves to have safe communities. every american citizen deserves to turn on the heat during the middle of a cold winter night. every american citizen, so long as they work hard and play by the rules, all to be able to afford the groceries they want for themselves and their families. and that is only going to happen if we get donald j. trump back in the white house. so let's go fight for it, let's go earn it, let's go make donald trump the next president, and we're going to do it together. god bless you guys and thank you for everything you're doing. we love 'ya. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

>> friday tammy baldwin faces off in murray's for senate seat, ivate 8:00 eastern on c-span.org. >> next former president bill clinton joins tim walz in rham, north carolina on the first day of early voting. the gornor was critical of jd vance for saying donald trump did not lose the 2020 election.

this is one hour 10 minutes. . the president: clinton speaking to voters in durham, north

carolina. live coverage on c-span. ♪ ♪♪ >> i'm fired up. i'm fired up and ready to go. hello everyone, i'm a senior at the north carolina central university here in durham. and today, today, because my generation needs and deserves leaders who are looking out for our future. vice president harris and governor walz are leaders that are fighting not only for me, my

community, but also my generation. [cheers and applause] they have a vision for a new way forward. [cheers and applause] that they will protect our fundamental freedoms, and preserve our democracy. [cheers and applause] as vice president, we know kamala harris has been fighting for us. and she knows, she knows that our hcbu's are important cultural educational institutions that drives innovation, research and economic building. vice president harris along side

president biden have invested a record $17 billion in our nation's hcbu's. [cheers and applause] and delivered one of the largest increase in pell grant programs in over a decade. now, meanwhile, donald trump would be a disaster for students. we have to realize his project 2025 agenda for a second term includes extreme plans to eliminate the department of education. and then take away from the head start program diverting funding away from public schools and stopping for giveness loan programs. his plan would hurt the economy

and raise costs which is not something that my percent and i want to do in this generation! [cheers and applause] and we talk about it, the members of our generation want leaders with the vision for the future. one where we are all able to achieve our version of the american dream. [cheers and applause] with vice president harris, we know that she is fighting to give us more opportunities to make it easier to get an education, to make it easier to get a good paying job and to start a small business. [cheers and applause] and we talk about vice president harris selected her running mate and picked a leader who shares

her vision for a new way forward. [cheers and applause] and has always been fighting for working people and students like myself. now, governor walz has a heart for service that i admire and tries to emulate, whether in the class rooming, national guard or in the football field or governor, we see tim walz has spent every day trying to make a difference for the american people. [cheers and applause] and let me tell you a few things he has done as governor. signed the largest tax cut in minnesota's history. lowered the costs for the middle-class families. stood up for our fundamental freedoms, just