JD Vance Casts Election Day Ballot

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JD Vance casts his ballot on election day in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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00:00I appreciate you coming out to see one of the great traditions, of course, in American

00:03democracy.

00:04I, of course, voted for Donald Trump and myself, so did my wife, and we also, for all the locals

00:10out there, we voted for Bernie Marino for the United States Senate, and if you want

00:15the policies of Donald J. Trump in the United States Senate, then Bernie Marino is the only

00:19candidate in this race who I think is the candidate of peace and prosperity for the

00:23United States Senate.

00:24So I hope people will get President Trump over the finish line.

00:28I hope people here in Ohio will get Bernie Marino over the finish line.

00:31Look, I feel good.

00:32You never know until you know, but I feel good about this race.

00:34I felt good about my own race a couple of years ago when I voted in this exact same

00:38spot.

00:39Hopefully it goes as well for President Trump and me as it went for me a couple of years

00:43ago in the state of Ohio.

00:44Well, look, I think our message is, first of all, we do expect to win, but obviously

00:47no matter who wins, half the country, as you said, is going to be at least partially disappointed.

00:52I think my attitude is the best way to heal the rift in the country is to try to govern

00:55the country as well as we can, create as much prosperity as we can for the American

00:59people, and remind our fellow Americans that we are all fundamentally on the same team

01:04however we voted.

01:05I certainly hope you vote for Donald J. Trump today.

01:07I think that his policies are going to promote peace and prosperity for our citizens, but

01:12if you vote the wrong way, in my view, I'm still going to love you.

01:15I'm still going to treat you as a fellow citizen, and if I am lucky enough to be your

01:18vice president, I'm going to fight hard for your dreams and for your family over the next

01:22four years.

01:23Actually, he called me about three in the morning, apparently from the plane headed

01:26from Michigan to Palm Beach last night.

01:28I was in bed at the time.

01:30I haven't been able to talk to him this morning.

01:31I was going to call him as soon as I woke up, but when I realized that he got back home

01:35around 5.30 last night, I decided, hopefully he's asleep, and so I'm not going to call

01:40him.

01:41I'll certainly talk to him probably on the way to the airport or when we land.

01:43You know, my most important message is we ought to argue, disagree about, persuade each

01:49other about politics.

01:50That's part of the natural process, but we can't discard friends and we can't discard

01:55family members.

01:56I think that if we all just recognize this basic principle that we ought to love people,

01:59we ought to be friends with people, we ought to be family members with people, regardless

02:03of their politics, that would do a lot to heal the division.

02:06I know myself, I've had a lot of friends, not a lot, I've had a few friends who have

02:10cast their friendship aside because I decided that I wanted Donald J. Trump to be the winner

02:14in the last election and in this election.

02:16I think that's a tragedy, and I'm not going to follow that example.

02:19I'd say to everybody, whether you're voting for Donald Trump or voting for Kamala Harris,

02:23remember, friends and family, that stuff is what really, really matters.

02:27We ought to be kind to one another, we ought to treat each other with respect, and fundamentally

02:31what we're trying to do, President Trump and I, is just build the kind of country where

02:35our fellow Americans can achieve their dreams, but that's all of our fellow Americans, regardless

02:39of who they vote for.

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