J.D. Vance: “If people want to say we mishandled the Epstein release, guilty. We did mishandle it—especially the communications of…”

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So I ask you this November to stand for a man who stood for moms and babies, to stand for a man who stood for all Kansas.

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.