🇺🇸 JD Vance | Full Speech at MAGA Rally in Big Rapids, Michigan (Subtitles) [CC Multilanguage]

It is great to be in the great state of  Michigan in 69 days, my friends. We're   gonna take this country back. We're gonna elect  Donald J. Trump president of United States,   and it is gonna start right here with the  great people of Michigan. Now last week,   the biggest heist in American history  happened right under Kamala Harris's nose. Somebody stole 818,000 jobs that she and  Tim Walton been bragging about. Y'all see   that? Where'd they go? Now you may not have  heard this because our friends at the back,   the media doesn't like to talk about it, but  what really happened what really happened is   this. The Harris administration had  to admit that more than a quarter of   all the jobs that had supposedly been  created last year were actually fake. They never existed. It was the biggest revision  to the job numbers since the financial crisis   back in 2008, 2009. In other words, what it  means is they are cooking the books to hide   how bad the economy really is under  Kamala Harris. I promise you this,   on November 5th, there is one job that  is definitely gonna vanish and that is   when we tell Kamala Harris you are fired  and send her back to San Francisco. Now   now y'all are fired up and it's hot out here. Kamala Harris, she needs a rock star to get a  crowd like this. We just come out here because   we're patriots and we wanna save this country.  Now, Kamala, I don't know if you noticed,   if you paid attention to the news,  lately Kamala has decided that the   American people don't like her policies, and  she's exactly right about that. Just take 1,   immigration. Kamala Harris, remember,  she suspended deportations on day 1. She stopped Donald Trump's remain in Mexico  policy, that was on day 1. And that's why we   have a wide open southern border. But  I read a story this morning that her   advisers are considering just copying all  of Donald Trump's policies. They're more   popular. In fact, I've heard that for  her debate in just a couple of weeks,   she's gonna put on a navy suit, a long red tie,  and adopt the slogan make America great again. I think that's what but we're not we're not  gonna let the American people forget that   Kamala Harris is the candidate of American  decline. She cast the tie breaking vote for   the Inflation Explosion Act. She cast the  tie breaking vote to send interest rates   and mortgages through the roof.  She opened that border on day 1,   and as much as fake Kamala wants to pretend  that she now agrees with Donald Trump, we've   gotta remind her she's the vice president right  now. Stop talking about what you're gonna do. Stop start talking about what you are gonna do  right now because you're the vice president. And   what she has done what she has done has been a  disaster. Now I will confess that in some ways,   I have a soft heart, ladies and gentlemen. In some  ways, I feel bad for Kamala Harris. They don't. You don't. But I I I really I'm not sure  that this is a woman who knows what she   actually believes. She is if you think about  it, she's just a cog in the wheel of a very   corrupt system. Now let's go back in time  a few years and just remember the formula   of Kamala Harris and her handlers and what it  reg. Now step 1, remember, step 1 was to ship   all of our good manufacturing jobs to Mexico, to  China, to far flung corners all over the world. Remember, Kamala Harris supported  the reauthorization of NAFTA,   which has been terrible for the  state of Michigan, the state of Ohio,   and the state of Pennsylvania. Proud towns  became ghost towns. Dignified American   workers became dependent on the government, and  families, including a lot of families like mine,   fell apart under financial stress. Now that  was step 1. Did we ask for any of that? No. Now here's step 2. Step 2 is open our border  to millions of illegal immigrants. Woah. And into   that void into that void of joblessness,  poor drugs and a lot of cheap labor. Our leadership, including Kamala Harris, they said  it was compassionate, but it was a lie. What they   really wanted, my friends, was millions of voters  for Democrat policies, and they wanted millions   of cheap laborers. American wages went down,  and our leaders learned they could ignore their   own citizens and their quest for power. Now that  was step 2, and I asked, did we ask for that? No. Now the next step was a lot of stupid foreign  policy. Our leaders couldn't deliver prosperity,   but they could deliver war and conflict.  So we invaded countries all over the world,   and then we invited other countries to  invade us through illegal immigration.   Our people got poorer, our leaders got richer,   and they got more powerful. Now that was  step 3, and I asked, did we ask for that? No. Now I have lived, and I know a  lot of us in this crowd have lived   the consequences of these failures, and I saw it  very personally. My friends, my parents divorced,   my family began to struggle, my mom, god love  her, she found solace in the prescription pain   pills that a lot of kids and a lot of adults were  getting hooked on, and then eventually she moved   on to some harder stuff. Now I will tell you that  I thought I would lose my mom when I was a kid,   and I prayed every single day that she would  somehow find her way to a second chance. And   I'm very proud, my friends, to to tell you  not only did my mom find a second chance,   but she's here with us today campaigning  with me in the state of Michigan. Now Jamie. Now she is, I will say, the  best grandmother that my kids could ask   for. They are 7, 4, and 2. Little spoils them  a little too much, mom. No more Pokemon cards. In front of a 1000 people, no more Pokemon  cards. The kids have got enough. But I know   that a lot of Americans prayed for  that second chance, and thank god we   got it. But a lot of Americans prayed for  other things. They prayed for good jobs. They prayed for their towns to have prosperity.  They prayed for their parents to overcome the   scourge of addiction. And in 2016, a  lot of those prayers were answered,   my friends, weren't they? After a generation  of Americans being ignored by their leaders,   Americans spoke with a unified  voice. And you know what they said? They said no more bullshit, and they sent  Donald j Trump to the White House. Now the   same people who screwed this country  up for 30 years said president Donald   Trump would fail. Remember that? And I  remember, I was myself, I didn't fully   believe in the promises of Donald Trump. He  persuaded me because he did such a good job. What happened next? Let's all remember.   Gas was $2 a gallon. Yeah. Housing was  affordable for young and old alike. Wages were rising, and this word inflation,  that's all people talk about now, it wasn't   even an issue. We had broad prosperity for  every American, rich and poor. Donald Trump   stopped the stupid wars and stood up to the  bad guys all over the world. He recognized   what our failed leadership didn't, that  weakness invites American boys and girls   to wars that they shouldn't have to  fight. American strength promotes peace,   and we had a hell of a lot of peace when Donald  j Trump was the president of the United States. I gotta get whatever we fed these guys behind  me. They're having a good time. Our border,   my friends, our border was secure. Overdose deaths  were coming down where they had gone up for 15   years, and a lot of people who struggled in my  hometown had good jobs and good prosperity, and   it happened all across the state of Michigan and  Ohio. My mom, she got clean and she stayed clean. That was my personal personal victory  that happened. And for every lie remember,   for every lie they told about Donald j Trump,   he just kept on plugging away at doing the  American people's business. He did it so well,   we had take home pay rising faster than it had  in 30 years. Our corrupt leadership remember   this. Our corrupt leadership said, if you  put tariffs on China, prices will go up. Instead, Donald Trump did exactly that.  Manufacturing came back and prices went   down for American citizens. They  way went up for the Chinese,   but they went down for our people. USA. USA. USA. USA. Because USA. USA. When you make your   own stuff with the hands of American  workers, the whole country prospers. We know that in Michigan better than anywhere.  Now our corrupt leadership said if you enforce   the border, people south of the border  are going to suffer. But Donald Trump   recognized that his first responsibility  as president was to the American citizen   and not to anybody else. So he shut down  that border. He shut off the drug trade. He drove the cartels out of business, and he had  overdose deaths falling in this country. What an   amazing thing it was. Remember our corrupt  leadership said that you can't defeat ISIS.   Remember that? Just a few few years ago, they said  we're gonna have to reinvade Iraq to defeat ISIS. Donald Trump defeated ISIS in a matter of weeks,  and then he brought America's sons and daughters   home. What an amazing, amazing track record of  leadership. But let's be honest. The country   wasn't broken in 4 years, and 4 years was not  enough time to root out all of the corruption.   So while Americans were getting richer, a lot of  bureaucrats and globalists were getting poorer. That was the story of Trump's term. So  Kamala Harris, she and her corrupt handlers,   they came up with a plan. Now they couldn't  beat Donald Trump in an honest debate,   so they decided to engage in censorship.  They were gonna censor Donald Trump,   and they were gonna censor his supporters.  Now remember, back in 2020, they lied about   Biden's corruption and covered up the fact  that his family got rich by selling access   to the United States government, and  Kamala Harris was there for all of it. They lied about the Hunter Biden laptop and  encouraged encouraged Big Tech to silence the   story, and they did. They lied about COVID coming  from a Chinese lab, and they censored anybody who   disagreed. Kamala Harris even went on national TV  and said Joe Biden was as sharp as a tack, even he   was clearly mentally incompetent to do the job.  And so it's obvious what's been going on. Right? Kamala Harris has been calling the shots. And  by lying about his mental fitness for the job,   she got what she always wanted, which was more  power. And what was the result? On her watch,   gas prices are up 50%. Housing costs have doubled. You talked to a young person today. Young  people cannot afford to buy a home in their   own country. We're turning a generation of 20  30 year olds into permanent debtors. Donald   Trump and I believe young people ought  to own a stake in their own country,   be able to build a life and start a family.  That's what that's what we're fighting for. Grocery prices. Grocery prices under Kamala Harris  are up 21%, and I think that under counts it. A   record number of Americans are working multiple  jobs. The housing market is as unaffordable as   it has ever been, and the average new car cost  nearly $50,000. Americans, this is heartbreaking. We now owe more than $1,000,000,000,000  in credit card debt, a record high,   at a time when interest rates are going up and  up. That's not all she did, my friends. She   isn't just causing high prices. She is undoing  the incredible work that that Donald Trump did   to rebuild American manufacturing. Now we stand  very close, of course, to the new Goshen factory. Right? That's right. And remember the  tie breaking vote that she cast to send   inflation through the roof. Remember  that vote? That vote also made Chinese   companies like Goshen eligible for  1,000,000 of your taxpayer dollars. Now the great Mike Rogers,  who's running for senate,   has been a champion on this issue. Thank  you, Mike, for doing what you do. There we   go. Stand up. But it's not just great it's not  just the really good ones like my Mike Rogers. Even some of the folks in Obama's administration  said that the Goshen factory plant is a threat   to America's national security, even Obama's  leadership. But Kamala Harris not only wants   to allow the Chinese Communist Party to build  factories on American soil, she wants to pay them   to do it with our tax money. Now China has also,  of course, stolen from Michigan car companies   and then fairly subsidized its auto industry for  years. That is the wreckage of what the Chinese   have been doing. And now Democrats in this state  and including Kamala Harris wanna give them 100   of 1,000,000 of dollars to those same companies  that have been undercutting Michigan auto workers. What a disaster, isn't it? Now I know, like  I said, we've got some great leadership like   Mike Rogers who are helping us in  this fight. We've also got chairman   Pete Hoistra who will help turn Michigan  red. Where's Pete at? Thank you, Pete. We've got the great Tudor Dixon. Where  is Tudor at? Saw Tudor earlier. There's   Tudor Dixon. Now they all know firsthand  that Democrats are helping China destroy   and replace our auto industry from the  inside out, and we're gonna stop it. The democrats are helping China, and it's  not just in Goshen. Okay? They're doing a   lot more beyond that. In fact, just a  few weeks ago, you probably saw this,   Stellantis announced that it would lay  off nearly 25 100 proud Michigan auto   workers making the iconic Ram 1500 Classic. Now  that is the record of Kamala Harris shipping   American jobs to China and paying  them to do it with your tax dollars. And what did she talk about at her  convention speech? I just saw that.   Did you see Kamala's convention speech? Well,   that was smart of you for not seeing it,  but I I'm in this business. I have to. Now Kamala Harris said, when we fight, we win.  This is one of her favorite taglines. And I   don't know if you saw it, but then but I don't  know if you saw it, but then Tim Waltz stood up   and shouted, and even when we don't fight, that's  what that's what Tim Waltz said. Now he lies about   everything, of course. He calls me weird, but then  he lies about who is how his kids were conceived. Who who does that? That's just the weirdest thing  I've ever seen. He said he served in combat,   but the closest Tim Walz ever came to  combat is when he let rioters bent burn   Minneapolis to the ground and did absolutely  nothing to stop it. And I know we have got a   lot of veterans out there. I served  in the United States Marine Corps,   and I did go to Iraq when my country  asked me, and I'm proud of it. And I know a lot of veterans who who  take offense. Jamie. Jamie. Jamie. Jamie. Jamie. But there are a lot of veterans a  lot of veterans from across our military   who don't like it when other people lie  about their service for military gain,   and that's exactly what Tim Walz did. It  is a slap in the face to all veterans,   and it's not just from Tim Walz. Kamala Harris  not only chooses to stand by this man because in   spite of his dishonesty, she actually chose him  to become her vice president to begin with. Now   while we're on the subject of their convention,  she said something else at her convention. She said and I don't know if if if you paid  attention here. She said there are gonna be   extremely serious consequences for voting for  Donald Trump. Now, Kamala, I've got I've got 2   responses to that. First of all, that is not  a very presidential thing to say. Is she the   vice president or the vice principal warning about  very serious consequences, whining at people for   telling a joke instead of trying to persuade  them that she deserves to be their president? I'm sick of people like that.  But second, it's the substance,   because the extremely serious consequences,  Kamala, have come from your leadership as vice   president of the United States. Americans can't  afford groceries because of your leadership,   Kamala. Young people can't afford  homes because of the policies that   you've enacted as vice president. Now the  only serious consequence in November that   I'm worried about is giving Kamala Harris  president, she is gonna fix it all on day 1. Well, Kamala, I hate to break it to you,  but day 1 was 1300 days ago. You've been   vice president for three and a half years.  What the hell have you been doing during   all that time? The message from this crowd and  this state of Michigan is you had your chance,   you're failed, and we're not giving  you a promotion. And Donald J. Trump is coming back to clean up your mess,   Kamala Harris, and it's gonna start  right here in the state of Michigan.   USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. Now Kamala Harris has  run her entire campaign on the idea   that she's joyful. But ask yourself, are  you better off than you were 4 years ago? No. The only person in America who could possibly  answer yes to that question is probably Kamala   Harris herself. She went from getting no votes  for president and having to drop out to getting   no votes for president and becoming the  Democrat nominee, all without lifting a   finger. No wonder Kamala's joyful. Now never mind  the fact that Americans can't afford groceries. Kamala got her promotion. Never mind that our  fellow citizens can't afford their rent because   Kamala, she's having fun. And never mind that  Kamala Harris is on the cusp of running us into   World War 3. Kamala will laugh all the way to  the bank while her donors get rich, and we know   it's not gonna be her family sacrificing  to pick up the mess. But I gotta tell you,   as as much as I am frustrated with Kamala Harris,  I am so hopeful about the future of our country. We have the most beautiful country in  the entire world. Don't we? I you know,   I've been flying around the country. I've been  driving around the country, and I just you get   a new perspective running to be the next vice  president that I'm so grateful for. We've got   natural resources all across this country  that are the envy of the world, my friends. We just need better leadership. It is that  simple. Better leadership. That's all we   need to fix this country. So here's what we're  gonna do, and we'll offer a little contrast. Kamala Harris wants to open the border.  On day 1, Donald Trump is gonna close the   southern border and his message to every illegal  immigrant is pack your bags because you're going   home. Kamala Harris wants to bankrupt Medicare  by giving it to illegal aliens. Donald Trump   is gonna fight to safeguard Medicare and all  of our great programs so that it only goes to   the American citizens who paid into it, not to  illegal aliens who are gonna bankrupt it. Now   Kamala Harris wants to shut down American energy  and drive manufacturing out of this country. Donald Trump has a different idea. He is gonna  drill, baby, drill. We're gonna unleash American   workers and bring back those great factories.  Kamala Harris wants to reward companies that   ship American jobs overseas, and she wants  to raise taxes on American workers. Donald   Trump is gonna cut taxes for American workers,  cut taxes for the businesses that hire them,   and raise the tariffs on the companies  that are shipping jobs overseas. That's our promise, and that's exactly  what Donald Trump's gonna do. And so   while Donald Trump is the people's president  and Kamala Harris is running on a fake joy,   Donald Trump is gonna offer something very, very  different. He's gonna offer a very real hope for   the future of this country. Hope that we  can reignite our economy and bring back   prosperity. Hope that we can raise our kids  in secure neighborhoods with safe borders. Hope that we can renew the patriotism that binds  us together as one nation under god. My friends,   the American dream right now, it probably  seems a little out of reach to a lot of us,   but in 69 days, we're gonna save every single  American dream. We're gonna save this country   for the citizens of this land, and we are  gonna lead together with president Donald   j Trump a great American comeback. So I want us  to send a message. I want us to send a message. They can hear it all the way in San  Francisco. They can hear it in Tim   Walz's Minneapolis. Well, they can  hear it all across this country that   Michigan is going red. Michigan is  leading the great American comeback,   and Michigan is gonna elect Donald J. Trump  the next president of the United States. God bless you all. Thank you all and thank you for   having me in this beautiful  country. God bless you all.