'It's An Interesting Selection': GOP Lawmaker Reacts To Trump Selection Of JD Vance To Be His VP

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On "Forbes Newsroom," Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) spoke about former President Donald Trump selecting Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) as his vice presidential pick.

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00:00The RNC was in Milwaukee last week. You were there. And a lot of the speech is centered around how the GOP's platform is better than

00:08former years of President Biden. Now that there won't be former years of President Biden is the Republican Party's platform changing

00:16or are you saying no the message is still the same. I think the platform has not really changed. It's very similar to the platform of

00:24Reagan. It talks about peace through strength. It talks about all the principles of Republican limited government you know low

00:31taxes economic prosperity protecting life. Those are all part of the platform. But I think that was just a little more general the

00:40way the platform was put out. We'll see. You know it's basically Trump's America first agenda which was very popular and bring our

00:48jobs back. That was something very popular. And that's where President Trump went on in 2016. And you've seen that it's we've

00:54completely slipped away from that. But since Biden was elected and I think that going back to the principles of President Trump had

01:00we been there today you're at the state and our country would be much more prosperous much more safe and our standing in the world

01:07would be tremendously better. We would not have wars raging in Europe and the Middle East. Arguably some of the biggest news to come

01:14out of the convention was that Donald Trump selected his running mate and that is Senator from Ohio J.D. Vance. What do you make of

01:22that selection. Yeah it's an interesting selection. I didn't I don't really know J.D. Vance. I think I met him once at an event. But I

01:28interesting. I did read and watch the movie Hillbilly Elegy which is J.D. Vance's work describing his life growing up in rural Ohio. I can

01:38kind of relate. I went to law school in Ohio. I come from a state that I call upstate New York the Rust Belt of New York very similar to

01:45the lifestyle that J.D. Vance had. You know knowing what it's like to lose your jobs to overseas interests to you know get ravaged by

01:54high taxes and a lot of those issues that they faced in Rust Belt towns. And so I think he brings a story of coming from poverty to

02:02making it big being successful. And I think that's what they're trying. That's the message that President Trump is trying to say is that you

02:08know you can be successful in America. You can come from nothing and aspire and arise to be a senator of the United States. You know a

02:18successful business person you know a successful writer with a book and a movie and also now the nominee for vice president on a major

02:28ticket in the United States. I think it's an aspirational story and it's one that President Trump wants every American to feel that

02:34they can also be as successful as J.D. Vance is regardless of where their roots are.

'It's An Interesting Selection': GOP Lawmaker Reacts To Trump Selection Of JD Vance To Be His VP

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