J.D. Vance: “After the Israelis struck Beirut, we were very worried. We saw a lot of evidence that the Iranians were going to launch…”

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

We're taking in an extraordinary amount of revenue.

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.

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.