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JD Vance: “You have vagrants, you have drug addicts, you have the chronically homeless, you have the mentally ill who harass, who…”

On the recordAugust 20, 2025
You have vagrants, you have drug addicts, you have the chronically homeless, you have the mentally ill who harass, who threaten violence, who attack families, and they've done it for far too long.
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JD Vance
Republican · Ohio
Source
theblaze.com
Aug 20, 2025

Editor's note · Context

Vance discusses the crime issues at Union Station during his remarks to National Guard soldiers.

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