JD Vance

But we're also going to embrace innovation.

We're going to make sure that America stays at the leading edge of the artificial intelligence boom.

And we think when that happens, it's going to create a lot of jobs.

It's going to create a lot of productivity.

We talked about agriculture.

I think it's going to lead to a new food revolution where we can grow a lot more food on a lot less land.

There's just a whole host of things that being forward focused on technology can bring to this country.

And that is the story.

I think the story of American entrepreneurship and American economic growth is that when we grow through technology and development and productivity, that enters to the benefit of all Americans and makes us more powerful and more wealthy.

When we try to grow our economy, frankly, through importing cheap labor, that I think is a dead end.

We've taken that pathway for far too long in this country.

The Trump administration is going to take a different path.

Yeah, it's got to be a little bit of both.

You know, it's always tough to strike the right balance.

I mean, look, China is our biggest economic competitor in the entire world.

When you look at their technology industry, I think that's the only tech industry, especially when it comes to things like AI, where they're even sort of knocking on the door of America.

Now, I still think that we have the best hardware.

I think that we have the best software.

I still think that we're the most technologically forward economy.

But our edge is not something we can sort of rest on our laurels.