JD Vance speaks on crime and safety in Kenosha

Senator Vance, thanks for coming to Wisconsin. We still have time to make you *** Packers fan. Thank you, God bless God bless America. Thank you. Oh, we got some Chicago fans out there too. Wow. All right, we’re gonna have, we’re gonna have some conflict, some civil strife here. Not today. We’re all, we’re all here to support the police, whatever our sports allegiance is. And finally, I want to get *** great future colleague in Washington, *** guy who built *** business in Wisconsin who served the people of the state and the private sector and is now crazy enough to want to serve in the public sector. The great Eric Hovey, the next senator from the State of Wisconsin. Eric. Come on up here. You say, well, as I walk through Kamala Harris has failed at every single role that she played from state *** G or D *** for San Francisco or *** senator, pushing the dumbest idea defund the police. And now as vice president and opening our southern border, look, as I said, we all want to live in safe communities and you could not get *** more distinct difference between these two sides the radical leftist Kamala Harris, Governor Walz and Senator Tammy Baldwin, President Trump JD Vance and Eric. And we are going to back law enforcement and let me tell you anybody that doesn’t. My wife has *** great line. Walk *** day in their shoes. They go out every day to defend our communities, defend you, put risk of their own personal safety. So walk *** day in their shoes. I support law enforcement President Trump, JD Vance will always have your back and we will never incorporate such *** crazy idea as defund the police. So let’s restore our safety, bring back this wonderful country and thank you, Vice President. Soon to be Vice President Vance. All right. So I want to take *** few questions from the press. But before I do, let me just try to bring this home here because it is very easy and very fun to criticize the record of Kamala Harris. But we also have to remind ourselves that we don’t just have *** vision on the Trump campaign. We don’t just have *** bunch of promises on the Trump campaign. We have got four years of Donald Trump’s successful leadership that brought public safety to our streets and that is something to celebrate and look forward to. So here is President Trump’s solemn promise to our law enforcement community and all of those, all of us who benefit from their sacrifices and their public safety. It is simple. We are going to end sanctuary cities in this country. We’re going to bring back pro law enforcement cities. We are going to deport the violent illegal aliens that have come into this country over the last few years. No more free rides. No more amnesty. We’re going to support the death penalty for drug dealers because they kill far more people than some of the most violent and vicious criminals. We have got to have real penalties for people who are killing our kids and poisoning our, our communities. We’re going to protect police from frivolous lawsuits. You hear President Trump talk about that. The reason that it’s so hard for the police to do their job sometimes is they know if they do their job, they’re going to get sued for it. We’re going to protect them from those lawsuits and make it easier for our police to do their jobs. And finally we’re going to stand up to soft on crime prosecutors. If *** police officer does their job and brings in *** bad guy, we need some prosecutors who actually lock those people up and put them behind bars. It’s common sense. All this stuff is just simple, common sense. Now, we know what happens when we don’t have leadership who support our law enforcement. We saw it in Kenosha just *** few years ago. You all know this better than I do that. Four years ago, Kenosha had terrible riot riots after *** police shooting and who was it? Who was the president of the United States that promised that he would send in law enforcement, if asked, that was Donald Trump, who was it that pacified the streets of Wisconsin and ensured that those riots didn’t spiral out of control and burn down the entire city. That was President Donald J Trump. And of course, we know the governor didn’t initially want the support from President Trump. But after *** couple days of those riots, he relented and did the smart thing and allowed President Trump to support to send federal support without that, without that. I really think that Kenosha would still be recovering from those terrible riots today. But today, look, we’re in *** beautiful place and it’s *** beautiful town and we can thank President Trump’s leadership and also the law enforcement who did their jobs and did it. Well, God bless you guys. Thank you so much. Now, I will always, I will always have the back of law enforcement. Let’s bring up our reporters here to ask some questions. I will always have the backs of law enforcement. I will always support our police officers because I know what it’s like again to be *** kid who can’t even believe and can’t even rely on public safety. I want every single child in this country, whether they’re rich or poor, whether they grow up on the right side of the tracks or the wrong side of the tracks. Every child deserves to have public safety and that’s what we’re going to do when Donald J Trump is president. God bless you guys. Thank you all for coming out. Sim, thank you to these great public servants. Let’s get Eric Coy across the finish line and let’s make this country great again. God bless you guys. And what I’ll do, what I’ll do here is I’d, I’d love to start out. Thank you, ma’am. I’d love to start out with local Wisconsin reporters and, and take *** few questions from the local reporters and then if we’ve got time afterwards, we’ll take some questions from the national folks. So if you’re *** local reporter, please raise your hand, ma’am. Hi, Senator. Thank you for your time. It’s Mary Jo Ola with TMJ four News here in Milwaukee. Uh You were just in Milwaukee *** few days ago now in Kenosha. Can you just talk about how much of *** priority Wisconsin is to the Trump campaign? And where are you headed next in Wisconsin? Well, look, I just like Wisconsin *** lot, right. So I’m gonna spend *** lot of time with you. Fine people. But obviously, politically Wisconsin may be very well. The most important state in the country come November and we believe that we know that all the polling says it, but most of all you feel it on the ground. Look, Wisconsin is *** state that I think has really suffered from two failures of the Kamala Harris presidency. Vice presidency. The first is Wisconsin is *** great and proud manufacturing state with *** lot of skilled craftsmen and *** lot of people who work with their own hands, make things with their own hands. And they know that with Kamala Harris’s policies that raise the cost of energy, you’re shipping *** lot of good manufacturing jobs off to China President Trump. And I believe we ought to keep those manufacturing jobs right here in Wisconsin. Let’s do it with Wisconsin workers and let’s produce prosperity for the whole country. And the second thing is you saw it with the riots in Ocean. The summer of 2020 Wisconsin has suffered when you don’t have good smart pro public safety leadership. And that’s what Donald Trump and I want to bring back to the White House is back in the blue, supporting our police officers and making sure that public safety is the birthright of every American citizen. I think that message that shared economic and public safety message is going to bring Wisconsin home to Republicans in 2024. And it’s going to make Donald Trump the president United States again. So, yes, it’s very important. I also say when my kids came up here for the RNC convention uh four or five weeks ago, the one place they really wanted to go was the Cheese Castle. So if you’ve all, how many of you have been to the Cheese Castle? All right, good. So my kids have been to the Cheese Castle. The first time I ever came to Wisconsin was 12 years ago with my then girlfriend. Now my wife, we made her stop at the Wisconsin Cheese Castle. So every time we come back, we got to stop at the Wisconsin Cheese Castle, but it’s good to be here and we love the state. Other, other local reporters, man. Hi, Megan Marshall with Spectrum News. This is the second endorsement from *** local law enforcement here in Wisconsin. Tell me why that’s so important to you and your campaign. Well, I think it speaks to the fact that law enforcement knows who’s on their side. Right. Donald Trump has been endorsed by so many law enforcement organizations across the country, but now two in the state of Wisconsin just the past week because they know that Donald Trump is the one who’s actually going to stand up for them and support them. Look, we have got real problems in law enforcement recruitment in this country and certainly right here in the state of Wisconsin, *** lot of our police departments are under funded and under resourced. We don’t have enough cops to do the job of keeping us safe. And then on top of that, we’ve got Mexican drug cartels operating as far north as Kenosha Wisconsin because we have *** border Czar Kamala Harris who refuses to do her job. These guys just want common sense back, right. Some of them are Democrats. Some of them are Republicans. Maybe they agree or disagree with us on tax policy, but they agree with us that we’ve got to have common sense, public safety and if we don’t have public safety, we don’t have anything. You can’t build *** business, you can’t go to work, you can’t take your kids on *** walk in your neighborhood without public safety. Public safety is the foundation of having *** good country. And the police of Wisconsin know Donald Trump is the public safety candidate. Few more locals, ma’am. Yes. Yeah, I’m Hannah Hilliard with channel 12 from up in Milwaukee. Obviously, there is *** big event happening not too far away from here over in Chicago. Did you catch any of the DNC tonight? If you or last night? If you did, what were your immediate thoughts? Well, my, my immediate thoughts were all the people boo and I agree with them. That was my response to it was boo. I watched little bits and pieces of it. We were in, we were out campaigning yesterday. So I got home to Cincinnati *** little on the later side yesterday. So I watched some of it. I will say just the contrast between the public safety policies of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is really striking and it’s almost *** joke to me that they held it in Chicago, which has become the murder capital of the United States of America. Thanks to very failed democrat leadership. I mean, I believe last weekend in the state, in the city of Chicago, you had something like 40 shootings and 17 people who lost their lives. That is something that we would not accept in *** third world country. Much less than one of our beautiful, great American cities like Chicago. And I, you know, my, my, my little theory about why they decided to have the convention in Chicago is, you know, Tim Waltz has been going around saying that he served in war and maybe they did it in Chicago so that he could actually accurately say that he went, he visited *** combat zone because Chicago, I mean, look, Chi Chicago has violent crime statistics that actually mirror again, third world, highly violent countries. Again, public safety is the birthright of every citizen in this country, poor or rich, black or white. Nobody should be growing up in *** community where you have *** murder rate like that. And I think it is *** good contrast between the policies of Kamala Harris that promote violent crime and the criminals who do it and the policies of Donald J Trump who promote peace, who promote prosperity and want to throw the violent criminals behind bars. That’s what Donald J Trump wants to do. And I share that. What any, any, any anybody else here ma’am? Yeah. Go ahead. Hi, this is Stephanie Quirk with Fox Six News in Milwaukee. Um kind of going off the DNC. Uh Vice President Kamala Harris is paying *** visit to Milwaukee tonight. Um holding *** rally. Do you have any response to that? No, no response. Look, I mean, Kamala Harris is gonna run the campaign that she runs. I would say that I wish that she would do what I’m doing right now, which is talk to the media and actually answer some tough questions. I, I mean, if, if, if, if you think what I’m doing here right now, what, what am I asking? The question I’m asking is for the fine people gathered to vote for me to be their vice president of the United States. What an awesome responsibility and what an incredible thing that I’m asking them to do. Now, Kamala Harris is going around asking people to be their president of the United States, but she won’t answer *** single tough question and she won’t interact with the American people unless there’s *** teleprompter standing between them and her. And I think that’s crazy and I think that what the media has got to start doing is it’s got to start saying, look, if Kamala Harris is not gonna stand and answer some tough questions, we’re gonna stop giving her this fake fawning coverage demand that she do what any president has had to do, which is answer some tough questions. But look perfect her argument. II, I can’t get over this because you lo you watch her rallies and Kamala’s argument is something that I could not stay with, with *** straight face. She stands there and says on day one, she’s gonna tackle the housing affordability crisis in our country. On day one, she’s going to tackle the grocery affordability crisis in our country and they are crisis. Well, Kamala day one was 3.5 years ago. You’ve been the vice president for 3.5 years. What the hell have you been doing for all that time? So, for the people in Milwaukee who are going to go to her rally are gonna listen to what she says. I just asked them if she has such good ideas for how to bring down the cost of food and groceries and housing. Why doesn’t she do it now? She’s the vice president not talk about what she’s going to do in six months, do it now because she’s got the power right now. Any other? Thank you. Any other locals? Ok, we’ll do *** couple of nationals and then we got to hit the road. Senator Merrill Cornfield from the Washington Post. I have *** policy question for you. We don’t wanna talk about policy. So my question is, um, you were before you were in the Senate, there was the vote on the Violence against Women Act. And one of the hiccups with negotiating that bill was, should people who are convicted of, um, stalking be able to possess firearms? What do you think about that? Well, look, I think that we certainly don’t want violent criminals to have access to weapons. And that includes people I think who have been convicted of stalking. But I think it’s important to say convicted and what *** lot of those of us who are pro second amendment, what we don’t want is, you know, we don’t want somebody to have their gun rights taken away when they haven’t actually been in *** court of law. Right? Whether it’s *** first amendment, right? *** second amendment, right? Any right you sh you are entitled to due process in this country. And so the criticisms that I’ve seen of that are not that you, you know, certainly people who are convicted of *** crime, they should not be able to carry *** firearm, but people who have not gone through due process, they still have their rights, whether first amendment second amendment, whether walking around liberty or other rights. And I think that’s an important distinction here between our approach and the Democrats approach. We don’t believe in the Republican party that you should take people’s rights away unless they’ve gone through *** court of law. Hi, Senator uh Kit Maher CNN. I know Donald Trump has been reported. I don’t guys, it’s ***, she’s, she’s one of the good CNN reporters. She, there’s, there’s like two of them. She’s OK. Back to my question. So Donald Trump has enlisted the help of Tulsi Gabbard to prep for his debate. I’d like to know how you were prepping for *** debate with Tim Walz who has described himself as *** bad debater who’s helping you and how are you prepping? Well, I found *** good friend from back home who embellishes and lies *** lot and I’m having him stand in for Tim Waltz. That’s what we’re doing during our debate. But look what, what, what all getting aside, what we’re gonna do is we’re going to focus *** lot on policy, right? What I, what I, the way that I’m trying to prepare is to try to make sure that we’re, we’re prepared to answer the American people’s questions on how we’re going to make their lives better, how we’re going to make their community safer, how we’re going to bring back prosperity and low prices to the American economy. And we’re going to focus on policy and then obviously we’re going to answer whatever questions the moderators have. That’s how we’re focusing. And by the way, just on, on, on President Trump, we remember Tulsi Gabbard was *** democratic congresswoman just *** few years ago. She ran against Kamala Harris back in 2020. And now she is firmly behind the Trump Vance ticket. We’re actually the ticket that is supported by common sense people across the spectrum. I think Tulsi Gabbard, you saw her, I mean, she basically ended Kamala’s campaign on the debate stage. So she’s *** hell of *** debater, but she’s also one of these people who believes in some common sense, things like we shouldn’t send America’s sons and daughters off to fight in stupid wars. Right. Amen. To that Tulsi. And I, I, again, I think it’s really telling that the campaign that has brought *** lot of Democrats and Republicans and independents together. It’s the campaign of Donald J Trump. And that’s very important. We’ll do one more. We’ll do one more question, sir. Hey, Senator Zach, *** Washington examiner. Um I had *** question last year. You got *** lot of attention for visiting uh striking UAW members. Um In Ohio last night, Sean Fein attacked you at the DNC and, and Donald Trump. Uh Do you believe the party is gonna attract more union voters this cycle? And kind of what’s the strategy to do that? Look, I think that my message, Sean Fein and any other leader of this, of the labor movement would be, who is the campaign? Which campaign is actually going to protect the jobs of American workers union and non union? Like it’s the campaign of Donald J Trump. So sign up, get involved and support the candidates. It’s actually going to protect your jobs. Now, Sean Fain, who will, he’ll go on TV and say that *** majority of his membership is going to actually back Donald Trump. Why are *** majority of auto workers going to back Donald Trump? The same reason *** majority of American manufacturers across the spectrum are going to back Donald Trump because he’s the one who wants to protect their job. He’s the one who’s saying if the Chinese want to use slave labor and then import stuff into our country, we’re going to put tariffs on the stuff. They, they, they make slave labor and we’re going to protect the jobs of American workers. When Kamala Harris says she stands for the United Auto Workers and yet she supports ev mandates that’s going to have every single one of their jobs destroyed and shipped to China because it’s China that’s making most of the ES and America. We’re still making *** lot of gas powered cars. I think people ought to be able to drive whatever the hell they want because this is the United States of America. We don’t tell people what to do, but importantly, if we don’t tell people what to do, they’re going to be able to buy cars that are made in America with American workers doing the jobs. And that is why I think we’re going to win the majority of union and nonunion workers in this country. Whatever Sean Fain says, if he listens to his membership, they’re behind Donald J Trump. And of course, there are *** lot of other workers who aren’t just auto workers who are exactly the same position. All right, what I’ll say here finally to wrap up, thanks to the media for asking *** few questions is just God bless you guys. Thank you for coming. Out. Um II I, I get so much joy and so much energy out of being here and meeting people and getting to talk to people and seeing what’s going on in this country. We’re gonna win this race in November and it’s gonna start, it’s gonna start right here in Wisconsin. So, what I ask all of you is, look, we’ve got 76 days to this campaign and early voting probably starts, what, 30 days early in Wisconsin? Get out there, get your neighbors to the polls, get your family members to the polls, knock on doors, make phone calls. We are gonna win this race if we get out there and vote. So, God bless you all. Thank you for being here. Let’s go vote Wisconsin. Let’s go win in November and let’s take this country back and do it the right way. God bless you all. Thank you so much for being here.

JD Vance speaks on crime and safety in Kenosha during Wisconsin visit

Vance will be in Wisconsin the same day Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will hold a major rally at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee

Updated: 4:58 PM CDT Aug 20, 2024

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance discussed crime and safety measures in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 20.This is the third week Vance has visited Wisconsin in a row, underlining the state’s importance as a key battleground in the upcoming 2024 elections.”Politically, Wisconsin may be very well the most important state in the country for November,” Vance said Tuesday. “We believe that. We know that. All the polling says it. Most of all, you feel it on the ground.”Vance appeared with U.S. Senate nominee Eric Hovde, Rep. Bryan Steil and Kenosha County Sheriff David Zoerner. During his speech, Vance emphasized the Trump campaign’s commitment to public safety wanting to end sanctuary cities, protect police from what he called “frivolous lawsuits” and introduce the death penalty for drug dealers. “We’re going to support the death penalty for drug dealers because they kill far more people than some of the most violent and vicious criminals,” Vance said. Endorsements from local law enforcement were also highlighted. Just recently, the Milwaukee Police Association endorsed the Trump-Vance ticket.Vance used the backdrop of the Kenosha riots to underscore the Trump administration’s past actions in addressing public unrest. He credited former President Donald Trump for pacifying the streets and restoring order in Kenosha during the 2020 riots following a police shooting. The Trump campaign’s posture on immigration was addressed, with Vance criticizing the current administration’s handling of border security. He blamed Harris, the border czar, for the presence of cartels in Kenosha.Wisconsin remains an important battleground for both the Democratic and Republican parties. Tuesday, Harris, alongside Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will leave their own convention in Chicago and hold a rally at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. Vance responded to Harris’s upcoming rally in Milwaukee by suggesting that she should engage more directly with the media and answer tough questions.”Kamala Harris is going around asking people to be their president of the United States, but she won’t answer a single tough question,” Vance remarked.

KENOSHA, Wis. —

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance discussed crime and safety measures in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 20.

This is the third week Vance has visited Wisconsin in a row, underlining the state’s importance as a key battleground in the upcoming 2024 elections.

“Politically, Wisconsin may be very well the most important state in the country for November,” Vance said Tuesday. “We believe that. We know that. All the polling says it. Most of all, you feel it on the ground.”

Vance appeared with U.S. Senate nominee Eric Hovde, Rep. Bryan Steil and Kenosha County Sheriff David Zoerner. During his speech, Vance emphasized the Trump campaign’s commitment to public safety wanting to end sanctuary cities, protect police from what he called “frivolous lawsuits” and introduce the death penalty for drug dealers.

“We’re going to support the death penalty for drug dealers because they kill far more people than some of the most violent and vicious criminals,” Vance said.

Endorsements from local law enforcement were also highlighted. Just recently, the Milwaukee Police Association endorsed the Trump-Vance ticket.

Vance used the backdrop of the Kenosha riots to underscore the Trump administration’s past actions in addressing public unrest. He credited former President Donald Trump for pacifying the streets and restoring order in Kenosha during the 2020 riots following a police shooting.

The Trump campaign’s posture on immigration was addressed, with Vance criticizing the current administration’s handling of border security. He blamed Harris, the border czar, for the presence of cartels in Kenosha.

Wisconsin remains an important battleground for both the Democratic and Republican parties. Tuesday, Harris, alongside Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will leave their own convention in Chicago and hold a rally at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.

Vance responded to Harris’s upcoming rally in Milwaukee by suggesting that she should engage more directly with the media and answer tough questions.

“Kamala Harris is going around asking people to be their president of the United States, but she won’t answer a single tough question,” Vance remarked.