J.D. Vance

One, lowest crime rate in 120 years, a massive drop in murders.

That is human beings who are fellow citizens.

in some cases, our family and friends who are walking around America's cities who, but for the pro-law and order policies of the Trump administration, would literally not be with us.

It's one of those things where when you measure it in human lives, you realize how powerful and important this is.

There are many, many dozens of people in most of America's major cities who are walking around right now, who get to go home to their kids, who get to play with their dog because we have actually brought

some common sense back to our crime policies, but just going back to the media.

Okay.

So I remember this question I got from a New York Times reporter.

I was doing one of these long form interviews and she asked me, you know, she said, well, you know, sometimes you give these speeches and you're like happy go lucky.

And, um, you know, you play around with your kids and you're obviously very happy when you're doing that.

And, but sometimes you're like really annoyed or really angry.

Like what, what is the real JD?

And I remember thinking to myself, well,

What human being isn't sometimes pissed off at what's going on in the country but also can laugh about it?

What human being doesn't enjoy playing with their kids but maybe gets annoyed when they're dealing with some bullshit at work?

The idea that you have to be like one dimensional is I think one of the reasons why the media is so broken and it's one of the reasons why they can't tell the true stories that are out there.

You talked about the crime.

Why is the crime rate so low?

There are a lot of reasons.

One is that we've empowered local law enforcement.