J.D. Vance: “I think it's bad. I think it's bad.”

We don't need a congressman in a tight race to be there in all cases.

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.

We're taking in an extraordinary amount of revenue.

If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people," he said, "then that's what I'm going to do.