WATCH: RNC Crowd Chants 'Joe Must Go' As JD Vance Tees Off On 'Career Politician' Biden
Speaking at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) criticized President Biden.
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00:00In my wildest imagination, could I have believed that I'd be standing here tonight?
00:06I grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a small town where people spoke their minds, built with their hands,
00:16and loved their God, their family, their community, and their country with their whole hearts.
00:22But it was also a place that had been cast aside and forgotten by America's ruling class in Washington.
00:28When I was in the fourth grade, a career politician by the name of Joe Biden supported NAFTA,
00:34a bad trade deal that sent countless good jobs to Mexico.
00:42When I was a sophomore in high school, that same career politician named Joe Biden gave China
00:48a sweetheart trade deal that destroyed even more good American middle-class manufacturing jobs.
00:57When I was a senior in high school, that same Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq.
01:03And at each step of the way, in small towns like mine in Ohio or next door in Pennsylvania or Michigan,
01:10in states all across our country, jobs were sent overseas and our children were sent to war.
01:18Joe must go! Joe must go! Joe must go!
01:40I agree.
01:44And somehow, a real estate developer from New York City by the name of Donald J. Trump
01:51was right on all of these issues while Biden was wrong.
01:59President Trump knew even then that we needed leaders who would put America first.
02:12Now, thanks to these policies that Biden and other out-of-touch politicians in Washington gave us,
02:18our country was flooded with cheap Chinese goods, with cheap foreign labor,
02:24and in the decades to come, deadly Chinese fentanyl.
02:28Joe Biden screwed up, and my community paid the price.
02:33Now, I was lucky. Despite the closing factories and the growing addiction in towns like mine,
02:40in my life, I had a guardian angel by my side.
02:43She was an old woman who could barely walk, but she was tough as nails.
02:48I called her Mamaw, the name we hillbillies gave to our grandmothers.
02:59Mamaw raised me as my mother struggled with addiction.
03:06Mamaw was in so many ways a woman of contradiction.
03:09She loved the Lord, ladies and gentlemen.
03:11She was a woman of very deep Christian faith.
03:20But she also loved the F word.
03:25I'm not kidding. She could make a sailor blush.
03:30Now, she once told me, when she found out that I was spending too much time with a local kid
03:35who was known for dealing drugs, that if I ever hung out with that kid again,
03:40she would run him over with her car.
03:47That's true.
03:48And she said, J.D., no one will ever find out about it.
04:10Now, thanks to that Mamaw, things worked out for me.
04:13After 9-11, I did what thousands of other young men my age did
04:17in that time of soaring patriotism and love of country.
04:20I enlisted in the United States Marines.
04:32Sympathize to my fellow Marines.
04:36I left the Marines after four years and went to the Ohio State University.
04:49I'm sorry, Michigan. I had to get that in there.
05:01Come on, come on. We've had enough political violence.
05:08Now, after Ohio State, I went to Yale Law School, where I met my beautiful wife.
05:12And then I started businesses to create jobs in the kind of places that I grew up in.
05:17Now, my work taught me that there is still so much talent and grit in the American heartland.
05:23There really is.
05:24But for these places to thrive, my friends,
05:27we need a leader who fights for the people who built this country.
05:40We need a leader who's not in the pocket of big business,
05:43but answers to the working man, union and non-union alike.
05:54A leader who won't sell out to multinational corporations,
05:57but will stand up for American companies and American industry.
06:07A leader who rejects Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's Green News scam
06:12and fights to bring back our great American factories.
06:15We need President Donald J. Trump.