Even though Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance has been on a battleground blitz, he appeared in New Hampshire on Sunday night, telling voters even he was surprised to be there two nights before Election Day.
“I gotta be honest, a couple months ago, I wasn’t necessarily sure that the day before the last full day of the campaign we’d be in the great state of New Hampshire, but I think it suggests that what we’re doing is expanding the map,” Vance said in Derry, New Hampshire. “We’re bringing new voters into this coalition and to the folks in New Hampshire who want to live free, we are the only ticket in town.”
Vance reminded the audience of the slim margin between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the 2016 election. According to CNN election results, Trump lost by 0.4 percentage points.
Railing against Harris’ policies and record as vice president, including on immigration, Vance spoke to the New Hampshire audience, who are closer to the northern border than southern.
“It is not just fentanyl that’s being trafficked across the southern border, as you all know it is being trafficked across the northern border too. The amount of fentanyl has nearly more than doubled under the leadership of Kamala Harris,” Vance said.
In a dig at Vice President Harris’ ascension to the top of the ticket, Vance brought up how she did not compete in the New Hampshire primary and emphasized his belief the Granite State should remain the first-in-the-nation primary.
