J.D. Vance: “If we can build a sustainable peace, Margaret, I am 100 percent sure Americans will be safer because of it.”

He also appealed for Republican unity, while attacking Democrats as the 'party of hatred.

Vance is expected to land Monday afternoon at Fairbanks International Airport, where the rally will take place.

Vance smiled at the lectern, taking it in. Similar friendly outbursts continued throughout his speech, in which he talked about the kind of country he wanted to raise his children in.

I think the reality is, I don’t know the answer to that question.