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Erika Kirk Endorses ‘My Husband’s Friend’ JD Vance for President
PHOENIX—At Turning Point USA’s 2025 America Fest Thursday, Erika Kirk pledged the organization’s support behind one possible 2028 presidential candidate. “We are going to get my husband’s friend JD Vance elected for 48 in the most resounding way possible!” said Kirk, whose husband, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated in September. Turning Point Action, the organization’s grassroots… -
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Usha Vance Steals the Spotlight With India Trip
Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, appears to be making quite an impression during the couple’s visit this week to India, the original home of her parents. Despite her usually being a quiet presence at public events, the spotlight is now on Usha Vance as a cultural connector between New Delhi and… -
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In India, Vance Seeks to Broaden Bilateral Ties, Increase Trade
Vice President JD Vance is visiting India this week in hopes of strengthening the United States’ relationship with a strategic ally that also happens to be the world’s most populous democracy. Accompanied by his wife, Usha—whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from India—and his three children, the vice president is making a show of touring… -
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Vance Slams the Left’s Calls for Reputed Gang Member’s Return to US
Vice President JD Vance took aim yesterday at the some in the legacy media and on the far Left for demanding the return of illegal alien Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States from his home country of El Salvador, where he is currently imprisoned. The president of El Salvador said in a press… -
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JD Vance Fulfills Promise to Celebrate His Mother’s 10-Year Sobriety at White House
WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance stood at the head of the table in the Roosevelt Room during one of the most significant moments of his life, joined by his mother, Beverly Aikins. Despite the presence of about 20 family members and friends, including his wife, Usha, and their three children, there was a brief moment when… -
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JD Vance Explains How to Save Western Civilization
Vice President JD Vance spoke at The Heritage Foundation Tuesday before the private premiere of a new docuseries from Angel Studios based on author Rod Dreher’s book “Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents,” which tells the story of Soviet Union-era Christian dissidents. “I would not be standing here were it not for… -
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JD Vance Calls on Americans to Have ‘Courage to Live the Truth’
There is only one way to reclaim Western civilization, Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday night: exhibiting the courage to speak the truth. “We’re not going to rebuild prosperity and opportunity,” Vance said. “We’re not going to rebuild the kind of society where we teach children the important virtues and skills to thrive, as opposed… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Vance to Give Remarks at Screening of Docuseries on Christian Dissidents in USSR
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Vice President JD Vance will attend a premiere of Rod Dreher’s Angel Studios series on Christian dissidents in Soviet-era Russia on Tuesday. Vance will deliver remarks prior to a showing of a docuseries at The Heritage Foundation about Christian survivors of the USSR based on American Conservative editor-at-large Dreher’s book “Live… -
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Vance: The American Economy Is Quitting the ‘Drug’ of Cheap Labor
“Cheap labor,” according to Vice President JD Vance, “inhibits innovation” and is “a drug that too many American firms got addicted to” over previous decades of globalization. “Whether we were offshoring factories to cheap labor economies or importing cheap labor through our immigration system,” Vance continued, “cheap labor became the drug of Western economies.” Vance’s… -
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Vance Vows Accountability for Offshoring of Jobs
In a speech Friday at Vantage Plastics, a plastics manufacturing plant in Bay City, Michigan, Vice President JD Vance touted American workers and the progress the Trump administration has been making to make American manufacturing great again. “We are an administration that is going to do things for the American people and for American workers,”… -
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Illegal Immigration Worsens Housing Crisis, Vance Tells Cities’ Leaders
Illegal immigration raises demand for housing, which increases costs for American citizens, Vice President JD Vance said Monday. And when Americans can own houses, they are stakeholders in the nation, which makes them better citizens, he said. “We want our citizens to feel that investment in their own country, and it’s hard,” he said. “It’s… -
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There’s ‘Some Bad News and Some Good News’ at the Border, Vance Declares
There is both “bad news and some good news” from America’s southern border with Mexico, Vice President JD Vance told reporters Wednesday. Vance visited the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday and used the opportunity to contrast President Donald Trump’s border and immigration policies with those of the former administration. Starting with the… -
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JD Vance’s Message to Catholics
Editor’s Note: These are the lightly edited remarks by Vice President JD Vance made Feb. 28 at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. I will say that even though I, in my private-sector days, was a technology investor in Silicon Valley, I haven’t quite figured out… -
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At Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Vance Praises Pope, Suggests Avoiding Media Controversies
Vice President JD Vance on Friday addressed his relationship with the Catholic faith and Pope Francis at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Vance also discussed the elephant in the room about his relationship with the head of the Catholic Church, who nearly died this week. “We are not called as Christians to obsess over every… -
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String of Pro-Life Prosecutions in UK ‘Prove JD Vance to Be Correct’
Just days after Vice President JD Vance warned Europe against imposing Orwellian laws criminalizing free speech and silent prayer, police in Scotland arrested a 74-year-old grandmother for silently offering to speak to women outside an abortion facility, if they wished. Rose Docherty stood outside the abortion wing of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow holding a… -
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Vance Sticks It to the Mann: The BorderLine
Europe’s ruling political and economic elites have long maintained that mass migration, legal or not, is at worst, inevitable, and at best, positive. But the fact remains that mass migration is unpopular with Germans and other citizens throughout the European Union. At the Munich Security Conference last week, Vice President JD Vance told European leaders… -
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Vance Urges CPAC Audience to Persuade Others About Sanctity of Unborn Life
Vice President JD Vance urged pro-life Americans to persuade their fellow citizens about the sanctity of unborn life. Vance’s speech, on the one-month mark of the second Trump administration, kicked off the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. “We’ve got to persuade our fellow citizens that unborn life is worthy of protecting, it is… -
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Vance Outlines an Open, Forward-Looking AI Agenda
At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance articulated a positive vision for American leadership in technology—one that is more innovative than the European Union’s, more aligned with American values than Big Tech’s, and more impervious to the Chinese Communist Party. Addressing these three audiences, Vance put their artificial… -
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JD Vance’s Redeeming Grace
In this age of cancel culture, the legacy media likes nothing more than claiming a scalp. We saw it play out in Washington this week with the abrupt resignation of a 25-year-old DOGE staffer named Marko Elez, whose now-deleted X posts were the subject of a Wall Street Journal exposé. Thanks to the intervention of… -
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‘Disgraceful’: Vance Responds to Madison Square Garden Rally Attacks
HOLLAND, Mich.—Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance said it is “disgraceful” that the Harris-Walz campaign branded Donald Trump and his supporters Nazis after Sunday’s Madison Square Garden rally. “I don’t care that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz attacked me, and I don’t care that they criticize us for this policy or that policy,” Vance…