(The Center Square) – Vice President JD Vance called for unity among voters, touted administration policies, and honored Charlie Kirk in a speech Thursday night attempting to motivate Republicans to turn out in the upcoming midterm elections.
“By the end of 2024, you were tired. We were tired as a country, but you were not defeated,” Vance told a Dallas crowd at the Republican midterm convention on Thursday. “The radicals in Washington - they could take much from us, but they couldn't take our will to fight back, and so all of us came together on November the fifth, and we made Donald J. Trump the 47th president of the United States.”
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