The Republican vice-presidential nominee tailored his remarks to audiences in two key swing states, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
During back-to-back campaign stops in swing states on Aug. 28, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) told workers that he and former President Donald Trump are championing policies that will boost trucking and manufacturing with the aim to improve the economy for all Americans.
âWe want truckers to be empowered instead of throttled,â Vance told people gathered at Team Hardinger, a trucking and warehousing company in Erie, Pennsylvania.
In both speeches, Vance pledged that if he and Trump win the Nov. 5 election, they will reverse policies that he said are hurting trucking, manufacturing, and the U.S. economy overall.
He noted that trucks haul food and goods to stores. âIf the truckers are paying more for fuel, weâre all paying more for everything,â he said to the audience in De Pere, Wisconsin.
âIf you force all these great truckers to buy electric trucks instead of the trucks theyâre currently using, youâre going to make this inflation crisis way worse,â Vance told Pennsylvanians, urging people to vote for the Republican ticket rather than Democratic presidential nominee Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
âYou think [the prices of] groceries are bad, wait until Kamala Harris makes every American trucker drive an electric truck,â Vance said. âYou think car prices are bad, wait until Kamala Harris makes everybody buy a Chinese-made electric vehicle.â
Such policies are âa disaster,â he said, ânot just for truckers, but for everybody who relies on them, which is everybody.â
3 Steps to Lower Prices
Vance said that he and Trump will take three major steps to âend this horrible affordability crisis.â
First, they will halt the influx of illegal immigrants, who compete for wages against American workers.
Second, they will âstop ridiculous job-killing regulations like the EV [electric-vehicle] mandate.â
âAnd number three,â he said, âwe are going to âdrill, baby, drill.â Weâve got plenty of energy right here in Pennsylvania. Letâs get it out of the ground with Pennsylvania workers.â
Policies adversely affecting American industry predate Harrisâs role in the Biden White House, Vance said.
âThere was a consensus in this country for 30 years that we didnât need to make our own stuff. And so now, everythingâfrom a lot of the steel that we rely on to the drugs that we put in the bodies of our childrenâ … itâs made by our adversaries instead of made by American workers,â he said. âWasnât that stupid?â
But, Vance said, Trump is one political figure during his lifetime who said, âNo more of this.â He credited Trumpâs first term in 2017â2021 with creating âa bigger boom for American manufacturing and American energy than weâve seen that benefits the people of Erie, Pennsylvania.â
Reminiscent of His Hometown
Vance described Erie as âa beautiful placeâ that has fallen by the wayside. He said it reminds him of the southwest Ohio city where he grew up, Middletown, which boasts âa proud manufacturing and proud steelmaking tradition.â
Erie, however, has been âleft behindâ because U.S. leaders âdecided we were going to let companies make things using Chinese slave labor,â he said.
âAnd I happen to think we shouldnât expect Americans to compete with a bunch of Chinese slave laborers,â he said. âWe ought to expect American companies to hire American and build in the United States of America. And if you do more of that, youâre going to bring more jobs to Erie, Pennsylvania.â
During his speech in Wisconsin, Vance pointed out that Trump wants to âpunish the companies that are doing business with the communist Chinese.â
One Thing Is âBrokenâ
Vance also told Wisconsinites that campaigning as vice president for the past six weeks has been âthe greatest honor of my lifeâ and has given him the opportunity to âsee this country from a totally different perspective.â
This experience has shown him that âwe have the most beautiful country in the entire world … we have got natural resources that are the envy of the entire world.â
âThe Chinese and the Russians would kill for the stuff that we have right here in Wisconsin and all across our great country,â Vance said.
âWe have the best workers and the best families anywhere in the world, and by the way, weâve got the proudest cultural and historical traditions, I believe, that exist anywhere on the face of the earth.
âThe only thing that is broken about this country is our failed leadership.â
Hope for the Future
He said that Trump, however, âis equal to the job of leading the American people.â
âDonald Trump is a president for every American citizen, rich or poor. We just want people to have a good life in this country that all of us love,â Vance said.
While Harris, Walz, and their supporters have often used the word âjoyâ when discussing their campaign, Vance said he reflected on the conditions affecting many people in the United States.
âA lot of our fellow citizens, especially the poorest Americans and a lot of our middle-class people, they canât afford food; they canât afford a place to live. … Young Americans want to be able to buy a house and they canât afford it,â he said.
Still, he and Trump believe in âthe very real hope that the best days of this country are ahead of us,â Vance said.
Thatâs because âwe have the best people; we have the best workers,â and because Trump, if reelected as president, will âwork for you every single day,â Vance said.
He urged: âGet out there and tell every person you know why youâre voting for Donald Trump. Get your friends and your family to the polls.â
Original News Source Link – Epoch Times
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