Vice President JD Vance Celebrates Homecoming with Local Beer at Cincinnati Chili
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Vice President JD Vance poured beers for locals at a Cincinnati chili restaurant on Friday during a hometown campaign swing built around a speech at the steel plant where his grandfather once worked.
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Washington ExaminerVice President JD Vance slammed Democrats as an elitist group more concerned about high-earning workers than working-class voters during a hometown stop in Middletown, Ohio, on Friday.
New York PostVice President JD Vance stumped for Republican candidates in his Ohio hometown on Friday. AFP via Getty Images
New York TimesDrawing on His Rust Belt Roots, Vance Campaigns for Republicans Vice President JD Vance traveled to his hometown, Middletown, Ohio, and spoke at a steel factory where his grandfather once worked.
Fox NewsVice President JD Vance put Abdul El-Sayed at the center of his attack on the modern Democratic Party, pointing to the Michigan Senate nominee’s past remarks linking criticism of Sharia law to White supremacy as evidence that the party has abandoned its working-class roots.
The HillWatch live: Vance seeks to sell Trump agenda to Ohio voters Vice President Vance is heading back to his Ohio hometown Friday afternoon, as he looks to sell President Trump’s economic agenda to voters ahead of the November midterms. Vance will deliver remarks at Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works, a steel plant where his grandfather worked for nearly four decades. He is expected to tout the administration’s efforts…
NBC NewsThe visit was a throwback to how Vance was used as Trump’s running mate in 2024. His first solo event after joining the ticket that year was in Middletown, at his high school alma mater. Vance then spent the weeks until Election Day largely camped out in other Midwest states, such as Michigan and Wisconsin, and culturally and economically similar parts of Pennsylvania.
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Vance touted the Trump administration’s dramatic reduction in illegal border crossings and an increase in US citizen employment since last year.
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BreitbartVance went on to highlight the accomplishments of the Trump administration and how “factory construction employment has exploded.”
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“And of course, ending the Biden border invasion was a big part of why we have changed that over the last 18 months. For four years, the Democrats invited millions of illegal immigrants into this country to take over our communities and compete with us for jobs and housing,” Vance went on.
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Breitbart“For four years the Democrats invited millions of illegal immigrants into this country to take over our communities and compete with us for jobs and housing,” Vance added. “They let in murderers, they let in gang leaders, they let in fraudsters, and they let in drug traffickers, and they did so by the tens of thousands.”
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Turning back to Ohio, Vance reminded his audience that the Democratic Senate candidate — former Sen. Sherrod Brown — is “a friendly enough guy,” but “never once raised his voice against Joe Biden’s border crisis or against the inflation that was brought on by Joe Biden underinvesting and trying to destroy American industry.”
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Washington Examiner“Now I served for two years in the Senate with Sherrod Brown; he was a friendly enough guy, but he was a man who claimed to represent this state,” said Vance. “But never once raised his voice against [former President] Joe Biden’s border crisis or against the inflation that was brought on by Joe Biden underinvesting and trying to destroy American industry.”
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Speaking at a steel plant where his grandfather used to work, Vance claimed the Democratic Party had strayed from the legacy of former Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.
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Fox NewsVance spoke about his late grandfather, who worked as a welder for 40 years and voted Democrat because he believed it was "the party of union men." But Vance argued the Democratic Party has strayed from its working-class identity.
NBC News“This is not, unfortunately, JFK or FDR‘s Democrat party,” Vance said. “Hell, it’s not even Bill Clinton‘s Democrat Party.”
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"This is the party, the Democrat party of graduate students, rather than the union and nonunion workers who make this facility run," Vance said. "It's sometimes actually hard to understand what are these modern Democrats actually stand for? But look what they say. Pay close attention, and they'll leave these little hints of what they actually care about."
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Washington Examiner“This is the party, the Democrat Party, of graduate students rather than the union and non-union workers who make this facility run,” Vance continued. “It’s sometimes actually hard to understand. Like, what do these modern Democrats actually stand for?”
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Against the backdrop of voters’ mounting affordability concerns, Vance emphasized an uptick in manufacturing jobs during a speech in Middletown, Ohio. He celebrated $1 billion in new investment, including a federal grant, that will help upgrade the Cleveland-Cliffs steel plant where he delivered his remarks. And he urged support for Republican candidates this fall, singling out Sen. Jon Husted, who is running to keep Vance’s old Senate seat, and Vivek Ramaswamy, the party’s nominee for Ohio governor.
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Washington ExaminerAt the event, Vance announced a billion-dollar investment from the steel company Cleveland-Cliffs, which he said would transform manufacturing in Ohio.
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“Papaw was a welder in this place for 40 years, and today his grandson stands here as the vice president of these United States. It’s an amazing thing,” Vance said.
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NBC News“Papaw was a welder in this place for 40 years, and today his grandson stands here as the vice president of these United States. It’s an amazing thing,” Vance said. “And I’m here with a message from the president of these United States: The future of America, the future of the United States, the future of our homes and communities is going to be built right here in Middletown, Ohio.”
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01 New York Post Vance, the odds-on favorite for the Republican nomination in 2028, theorized how to consolidate the GOP’s gains among working class voters while talking up gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) in Middletown.
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02 Fox News Vance then turned his attention toward El-Sayed, the son of Muslim Egyptian immigrants.
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03 The Guardian US Leaked audio from a private event has reportedly captured the US vice-president, JD Vance, mocking Canada for apparently capitulating in a trade deal and taunting the prime minister, Mark Carney, for trying to “out-tough” Donald Trump.
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04 Washington Examiner Vance was referring to comments el Sayed made to the New York Times in 2009 in which he said, “Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don’t want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way.”
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06 Breitbart The vice president used the speech to cast the modern Democratic Party as unrecognizable to the one his grandfather backed for its union ties, calling it the “party of graduate students.” He said his grandfather “hated the people who forgot about this town when they should have been fighting for this town.”
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