VP Pool report #13 JBA arrival

AF2 was wheels down at 4:45 pm eastern.

VP Vance disembarked at 4:56 pm and did not stop to talk to press.

He boarded M2 at 4:57pm, it lifted off at 5:02pm.

Please note a typo correction in report number 10. Vance said “ Platner.” Your pooler regrets the error.

Additional fuller quotes from his q/a in Milwaukee below. Thanks to co-poolers for the help today.

Election fraud:

Vance did not offer details when asked “about the fbi investigation here in Milwaukee into 2020 and why are they relooking at that election here in the city?”

He adds:

“First of all, any election fraud is too much election fraud in the world's greatest and oldest constitutional republic, and number two, if Democrats want us to stop talking about election fraud, I make them a simple deal: pass the Save America Act and get voter ID, and we'll stop talking about election fraud. We are the only advanced democracy anywhere in the entire world that doesn't require you to show a voter ID to vote. It's simple, just give us election integrity laws, give us voter ID, and then we will have the confidence to say to the American people, there's no cheating. But when they say number one, we don't want voter ID, and number two, there's not that much cheating in our elections. It's natural for all of us to say not much cheating is still way too much cheating, so stop it and give the American people voter ID.”

On what happens if Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers does not hand over the SNAP roles or the Medicaid enrollment data to the administration, Vance added:

“if you are administering a program collecting billions and billions of dollars, and you don't check whether the people you're giving that money to are actually entitled to it, that is a complete scam that's being perpetrated on every single person in this room. So, what we've asked the governor to do is just give us the data, so that we can check whether you got illegal aliens on your food stamp rolls, and he's saying absolutely not. And I think the only plausible explanation for that is that he cares more about protecting illegal aliens than he does the good citizens of Wisconsin. It's a scam, and it has to stop.”

When asked for a response to Wisconsin joining “… a multi-suit lawsuit against the Trump administration over its implementation of new Medicaid work requirements” and the WI AG’a comment that “the Trump administration is lawlessly trying to restrict access to Medicaid coverage” Vance adds:

“Well, my response is again, we have what you might call a social contract in the United States of America. It exists between all of us, fellow citizens, between those citizens and their government. And the basic idea is when I hand over $1 to the federal government, I expect my government officials to spend it wisely to make sure it's not going to fraud, and if you have somebody who is receiving those benefits to make sure that they're at least looking for a job before they get a lot of free money from the federal government. so when I hear when I hear the Attorney General of this state saying that we don't want to confirm that people are looking for work before they receive federal benefits, my natural question is, why are you so against people looking for a job? That's it. We're not saying, we’re not saying that we want anybody to go without medical benefits. What we're saying is that we want you, if you're going to receive these benefits, we want you at least to try to find a job. And I think in the same way that every single person in this room and every single tax paying citizen of Wisconsin hands their money over to the government, it's totally reasonable for them to expect the beneficiaries of that money to at least be looking for work, that's the contract, and if you violate that contract, you shouldn't get a dime of federal money.“

When asked about prenatal fraud:

“the most important way to ensure that the people who deserve the help, who need the help, actually get it is to cut down on the fraud, because money doesn't grow on trees, and there are limited resources. This is one of the reasons why I personally care so much about fraud. I want to save every single one of you money, but I also want to ensure that when a young mom goes in to get some prenatal vitamins and she can't afford them, she's able to get access to them because a fraudster hasn't taken advantage of that program. Part of what we're trying to do is to ensure that these programs exist for the next generation. Look, just take the one of the biggest, the biggest federal programs out there, Social Security. People pay into Social Security for their entire working lives, every single day, or every two weeks, I should say. We get a paycheck, and we see on that paycheck the amount of money that is going to Social Security. I am worried that if we don't stop sending Social Security checks to illegal immigrants, the people who paid into it for their entire lives are never going to have access to that money. That's, that's a scam, and it's totally unacceptable. So, the most important thing we can do to ensure those benefits exist for the people who earned them is to make sure that the fraudsters don't get them that the American people do.”

“but you also asked about this mail fraud investigation, and absolutely, the answer to your question is yes. I think that's a great example of the federal government and the state government working together to cut down on fraud, and we want to see that model replayed and replicated on a number of programs. The problem is there are certain programs that, for whatever reason, most , not all, by the way, because I'll give great credit to the blue state governors who are working with us - but most blue state governors, if you want to check, for example, whether illegal aliens are getting food stamps. Most of them are saying we're not going to do that. If you want to check if illegal aliens are getting access to Medicaid health benefits, most of the blue state governors are not willing to do that. And I think it's, it's just sad, that this should be a bipartisan issue. If you're a Democrat and you believe that Medicaid should exist to provide good health benefits to people who can't afford them then why don't you want to cut down on the fraud. if you care more about fraud than you do about these health benefits it starts to make it look that you care more about illegal aliens than you do about the citizens of Wisconsin. That's what it looks like to me. I so I'll say to the governor of this state, even though he's not in my political party, the attorney general, anybody else, you have an open offer to come into the White House and to talk about how we can combat fraud together. I will work with you. I will make it easier. I will give you federal resources. I will do whatever I need to do, but it's got to be a two-way street. If you're hiding the food stamp rolls because you don't want to tell us whether illegal aliens are getting food stamps, that's not cooperation, that is you hiding criminal conduct from the American people, and it's a scandal, and it absolutely has to stop.”

On elections, Maine and WI races:

“we're getting into election season, and you all obviously care a lot about politics, and sometimes in election season it starts to feel a little bit like red team and blue team. People look at the fundraising numbers, they read the media stories, you know, they read the scandals, particularly in Maine. If you're into political scandals, might I recommend a Google search on Graham Platner. But we ought to remember that this is not Red Team versus Blue Team, this is about whether the American people get wise and honest political leadership or whether they are represented by a bunch of crazy people in their Congress.”

“Every two years, the American people get to vote on who represents them in the United States Congress and the United States Senate. Every two years, we come together as a country and make this determination together. My pitch to the voters out there, especially the voters who haven't made up their minds on Derrick Van Orden, on Bryan Steil, on all of our great congressional representatives, it's not that you're going to agree with us every single time, because nobody, even a committed Republican, is not going to agree with me on every single issue. it's not that we're always gonna see eye to eye. What I will tell you is that what separates Derrick Van Orden, Bryan Steil and all these great congressional representatives from their Democrat counterparts is that right now the Democrats don't even pretend to be fighting for you. Now, we could disagree, for example, about what should the police department's budget be, that's a reasonable, rational conversation for Republicans and Democrats to have. That's not the conversation that we're having. We're having the conversation about whether we support our police officers, which is what Republicans want to do, or whether we abolish police departments, which is what the Democrats are proposing to do. We can we we can talk about what our exact immigration level should be. Of course, reasonable minds are going to disagree, but that's not the debate that we're having. The Democrats that are running today are running on abolishing ICE and opening up the American southern border. We can disagree, we can disagree about tax policy and what the optimal tax rate should be. That's not what they're doing. The Democrats are running on confiscating your money and giving it to fraudsters and illegal aliens. They openly brag about fighting not for you, but fighting for some of the worst human beings that exist anywhere in the world. This is not a normal election, and so my request to you is not that you say that the Vice President is right about every issue. My request to you is that you send people to Washington who are of good character and recognize that you are their boss, not the fraudsters, not the illegal aliens and not the bosses of the 21st century Democratic Party. There are a lot of Democrats out there, a lot of independents, and of course a lot of Republicans who look to Washington and don't recognize the congressional leadership of the Democratic Party in 2026. Well I'd say to you, if you don't recognize that congressional leadership you can join this movement. if you want an American political party that fights for the police instead of against them. Vote for Derrick Van Orden and Bryan Steil if you want an American political party that cuts your taxes instead of raising your taxes to give it to fraudsters, then you got to support Glenn Grothman and Tony Wied. If you want somebody who ensures that, whether you're rich or poor or black or white, public safety should be the God-given right of every single American. They ought to be able to walk down the street without the fear of being mugged. They ought to be able to take your family to a nice dinner downtown without having your car jacked. If you believe in basic public safety for all of us, rich or poor, then send Michael Alfonso to Congress, don't send the crazy person running against him. My point is that this is not a normal election of people who disagree about this or that issue. By and large, there are exceptions, of course, but by and large, the Democrats have thrown their lot in with the people who want to abolish the police, who want to open the border, and want to give your money to fraudsters instead of moms who need it. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a simple request. When you go to the ballot in November, when you cast your vote, send us people to Washington, D.C. who fight for you and send the crazy people back home, where they belong.

Haley Bull

Senior White House Correspondent

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