RNC 2024 live: JD Vance blasts Democrats who have ‘failed and failed again’ in first speech as Trump’s VP pick

Donald Trump’s new running mate JD Vance closed out the third night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday with his first speech as the GOP’s vice presidential nominee.

Vance laid into President Joe Biden by declaring: “For half a century, he’s been a champion of every single policy initiative to make America weaker and poorer.”

Trump himself will deliver the closing address of this year’s RNC on Thursday evening, promising his remarks will be more moderate in tone after he called for cooler rhetoric in the wake of his surviving an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on Saturday night.

Also addressing the convention on Wednesday was Donald Trump Jr and his daughter Kai Trump – the former president’s eldest grandchild, 17 – who received a warm welcome on stage at the Fiserv Forum and praised her grandfather as a “normal” senior who gives her “candy and soda when her parents aren’t looking”.

The program also included Peter Navarro – fresh out of prison that morning – plus Nancy Mace, Matt Gaetz, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Kellyanne Conway and hard-line Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

The former Fox News personality and fianceé of Donald Trump Jr took to the stage on Wednesday night and delivered another round of exuberant, high-decibel praise for the former president, prompting social media users to note that she was “yelling again” and as “unhinged” as ever.

People were quick to reminisce about Guilfoyle’s speech at the lockdown-restricted 2020 RNC, which concluded with a defiant shout of “the best is yet to come” to an empty theater.

Though she did not use the now-infamous line again yesterday – her soon-to-be husband did.

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