Vice President JD Vance used his Thursday keynote at the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas to frame the Nov. 3 elections around what he called every American child’s “birthright” to affordability, safe communities, strong families and opportunity.
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Vice President JD Vance cast the November midterms as a contest over what future generations of Americans will inherit, using his Thursday keynote at the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas to argue that affordable homes, safe communities, healthy food, education and family stability should be regarded as part of the nation’s “birthright.”
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“I believe that our founders built this nation on a promise that echoes our creator, that every American child is born an heir, is born with a birthright,” Vance told convention delegates.
“Born with the right to inherit the blessings of the greatest country on earth. Not because of who their parents are. Not because of what they look like or where they come from, but because they are Americans.
“And that birthright, ladies and gentlemen, is what this November is all about,” he said.
Video of Vance’s full address shows the vice president organizing much of his speech around that theme while discussing housing, health, education, crime, family policy and the Trump administration’s record before urging Republican turnout in November.
Vance, 42, repeatedly referenced his infant son Alec, born in July, presenting the policies he supports as those he would want for his own child.
“I want my son to grow up healthy and strong,” Vance said. “I want him to have access to clean water and real food. I want him to live in a country where you don’t need a Ph.D. in chemistry to understand the ingredient list in the grocery store.”
He said he wants his son’s doctors to “answer to parents and to the Hippocratic Oath, not to a bunch of far-left bureaucrats,” and said schools should teach children “to read, to write,” arithmetic and “to love his country and his fellow citizens.”
Vance told those gathered in Dallas that he viewed his responsibility in government as fighting for Americans “as if they were my own family, as if they were my own kid.”
Housing affordability formed another major part of his argument.
“I want them to be able to afford a home where they can raise their children in peace and prosperity and comfort,” Vance said.
“I want them to know the pride of saving up for something, of buying something big and real that they’re proud of, without being outbid by Wall Street tycoons. I want them to keep what they’ve earned when they work hard. And that is the birthright that I’m talking about.”
Vance accused the political left of threatening that vision, telling Republicans that the “far left” was “working right now to make sure that your children never see that birthright.” Those remarks were part of a broader convention message in which Republican speakers repeatedly contrasted their agenda with Democratic candidates and policies.
He also addressed disputes over transgender participation in women’s sports, saying he wanted “our daughters to compete on a fair field where no politician tells the little girl she’s got to surrender her trophy, her scholarship or her locker room to a man.”
Vance said children should be “safe on their streets, safe in their schools, living peacefully in neighborhoods where the law protects the innocent and throws the violent criminals in prison.”
The vice president also criticized comments he attributed to a Democratic candidate in Michigan concerning the nuclear family, arguing that the remarks reflected “a very deep emptiness in the soul.”
“To the radicals who wish to abolish my family and the thousands and millions of other families all across our country, we have a simple message for them: Stay the hell away from our kids,” Vance said.
Vance additionally highlighted the administration’s fraud investigations. Trump named him to lead an anti-fraud effort in April, and Vance said Thursday that investigators had identified $250 billion in fraud since then. He accused Democrats of failing to address such abuses and said the Democratic Party in 2026 was “not about you” but “about foreign fraudsters” and “about who they hate.”
Those claims represented Vance’s characterization of the administration’s findings and its political opponents during a campaign speech.
Thursday’s address also fell on the first anniversary of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Vance opened his remarks by remembering Kirk, who had been seated in the front row when Vance addressed the 2024 Republican National Convention after becoming Donald Trump’s running mate.
Speaking directly to Kirk’s two children, Vance said, “History will record that your father was a great man. … He was a good man.”
The anniversary was recognized elsewhere throughout Thursday’s convention program, which included a tribute to Kirk alongside speeches from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republican officials.
Vance closed by returning to the inheritance theme that ran throughout his address.
“The country does not belong to the radicals. It does not belong to the bureaucrats. It does not belong to the highest bidder,” Vance said. “We received this national birthright, and we are going to fight for it by electing Republicans this November.”
The keynote positioned Vance’s argument for the midterms around a broad definition of economic and social security, connecting housing affordability, family policy, public safety, education and health to his contention that Americans should be able to pass on a stronger country to their children.
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