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

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.

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

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.