JD Vance casts his ballot on election day in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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00:00I appreciate you coming out to see one of the great traditions, of course, in American
00:03democracy.
00:04I, of course, voted for Donald Trump and myself, so did my wife, and we also, for all the locals
00:10out there, we voted for Bernie Marino for the United States Senate, and if you want
00:15the policies of Donald J. Trump in the United States Senate, then Bernie Marino is the only
00:19candidate in this race who I think is the candidate of peace and prosperity for the
00:23United States Senate.
00:24So I hope people will get President Trump over the finish line.
00:28I hope people here in Ohio will get Bernie Marino over the finish line.
00:31Look, I feel good.
00:32You never know until you know, but I feel good about this race.
00:34I felt good about my own race a couple of years ago when I voted in this exact same
00:38spot.
00:39Hopefully it goes as well for President Trump and me as it went for me a couple of years
00:43ago in the state of Ohio.
00:44Well, look, I think our message is, first of all, we do expect to win, but obviously
00:47no matter who wins, half the country, as you said, is going to be at least partially disappointed.
00:52I think my attitude is the best way to heal the rift in the country is to try to govern
00:55the country as well as we can, create as much prosperity as we can for the American
00:59people, and remind our fellow Americans that we are all fundamentally on the same team
01:04however we voted.
01:05I certainly hope you vote for Donald J. Trump today.
01:07I think that his policies are going to promote peace and prosperity for our citizens, but
01:12if you vote the wrong way, in my view, I'm still going to love you.
01:15I'm still going to treat you as a fellow citizen, and if I am lucky enough to be your
01:18vice president, I'm going to fight hard for your dreams and for your family over the next
01:22four years.
01:23Actually, he called me about three in the morning, apparently from the plane headed
01:26from Michigan to Palm Beach last night.
01:28I was in bed at the time.
01:30I haven't been able to talk to him this morning.
01:31I was going to call him as soon as I woke up, but when I realized that he got back home
01:35around 5.30 last night, I decided, hopefully he's asleep, and so I'm not going to call
01:40him.
01:41I'll certainly talk to him probably on the way to the airport or when we land.
01:43You know, my most important message is we ought to argue, disagree about, persuade each
01:49other about politics.
01:50That's part of the natural process, but we can't discard friends and we can't discard
01:55family members.
01:56I think that if we all just recognize this basic principle that we ought to love people,
01:59we ought to be friends with people, we ought to be family members with people, regardless
02:03of their politics, that would do a lot to heal the division.
02:06I know myself, I've had a lot of friends, not a lot, I've had a few friends who have
02:10cast their friendship aside because I decided that I wanted Donald J. Trump to be the winner
02:14in the last election and in this election.
02:16I think that's a tragedy, and I'm not going to follow that example.
02:19I'd say to everybody, whether you're voting for Donald Trump or voting for Kamala Harris,
02:23remember, friends and family, that stuff is what really, really matters.
02:27We ought to be kind to one another, we ought to treat each other with respect, and fundamentally
02:31what we're trying to do, President Trump and I, is just build the kind of country where
02:35our fellow Americans can achieve their dreams, but that's all of our fellow Americans, regardless
02:39of who they vote for.