In Michigan, Trump’s running mate JD Vance slams Harris and DC’s ‘ruling class’

“The Byron Center has been neglected, and so many other places in this country have been neglected by the ruling class in Washington, D.C.,” Vance told the crowd. “You, my friends, have been betrayed” by people who profit from what he called the country’s decline.

He said Vice President Kamala Harris, as a key part of the Biden-Harris administration, has raised the price of American energy, but her donors have made money from what Vance called “green energy scams.”

Those alleged scams include non-functioning ocean wind farms and forcing Americans to buy Chinese-made electric vehicles at the expense of Michigan’s working class, which has become much poorer while Harris’s green energy supporters have become much richer, he said.

Vance said Harris cast the deciding vote on many Senate bills that saddled Americans with inflation, while also voting on “runaway spending” and “green energy measures that failed.”

Before Trump became president, Vance said, the country lost 60,000 manufacturing jobs during the previous two administrations, but Trump opened 12,000 manufacturing facilities during his four years in the White House while keeping inflation in check.

“For three and a half years the media acted like (President Joe) Biden was Albert Einstein and now they’re pretending Harris is the second coming of Abraham Lincoln,” Vance told the crowd.

He said the Biden-Harris administration invoked a regulatory agenda that caused energy problems by buying oil from nations and recklessly spending trillions of dollars that caused inflation to rise by about 30%.

“We’re going to get American energy from America and employ American workers,” Vance said. “We’re going to drill, we’re going to drill, that’s how we’re going to do it.”

He said the Biden-Harris administration extended “economy-crushing lockdowns” and flooded the nation with millions of illegal immigrants, while causing families to spend $1,000 more on living costs each month than when Trump was president.

“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Vance asked the crowd. “Let’s bring Donald Trump back to the White House.”

Since Biden took office and Harris became the deciding vote in a nearly evenly divided U.S. Senate, Vance said gas prices have risen 50%, housing costs have doubled and food prices have increased 21%.

She said Trump is willing to fight for American workers and their jobs, while Harris voted to preserve the North American Free Trade Agreement and electric vehicle mandates that “tax you and send you to electric vehicles made in China instead of here in Michigan.”

“It’s time to tell Kamala Harris, ‘No, thank you. You’re fired,'” Vance said.

Vance called Harris “America’s border czar” and accused her of flooding the nation with illegal immigrants to provide cheap labor that takes away American jobs while halting deportations and proposing amnesty.

“Harris turned Border Patrol into a travel agency for illegal immigrants,” Vance said. “We’ll tell them to pack their bags and send them home on day one.”

He said Harris has no vision or plan for the nation, so she does not answer questions from the media and only works from prepared scripts.

Vance said Trump offers “hope and a vision to make that hope a reality” by relaxing regulatory controls on American energy so it can flourish and establishing policies for farmers to make food and housing more affordable — all while stopping fentanyl and other drugs from crossing the border.

“There are parents who have lost their children to drugs and violence,” Vance said. “We’ve been going backwards for the last three and a half years.”