VP out of town pool note - 7

Vance concluded remarks at 3:06 pm. Notes on his speech below. Please check quotes against recording and transcript.

• Calls Mike Rogers “just a good human being who loves this country and has served this country for decades.”
• Says truckers should be English speakers and legal US residents”
• “The truckers have been the ones who have kept this country running.”
• “With my kids driving around I don’t want somebody who can’t even read the road signs driving around with a CDL”
• Says 200,000 new driver’s licenses went out to unqualified, and largely undocumented immigrant, drivers under Biden admin.
• Calls Abdul el-Sayed as a “content goldmine” who “pretends to be a reasonable moderate”
• On El-Sayed: “We know he won't talk about the fact that every time he's given that opportunity, he apologizes for the worst of the worst in America and all over the world.”
• Refers to El-Sayed as “very, very evil” due to his politics being used to divide racial and religious groups as part of his campaign
• Says voters have a chance to “reject” the “hatred” he says is “on the rise” in the U.S. by electing Rogers
• Vance speaks about El-Sayed’s recent remarks about Second Lady Usha Vance:
• “Whatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife’s name the hell out of your mouth, because she’s way out of your league.”
• Per VP Spox, backstage before his speech, the Vice President met with the rabbi and security guards of Temple Israel, the synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan which was attacked in March of this year.
• Otter link: https://otter.ai/u/zF52wy-FUEY-Hycqw3NJTxhq_zg

Jacob Bogage

Reuters

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