Kamala Harris's VP Vetting Team, Led by Covington & Burling Duo Eric Holder and Dana Remus, Asked Josh Shapiro If He Was a 'Double Agent for Israel'

Kamala Harris's vice-presidential vetting team, led by a pair of Covington & Burling partners, Eric Holder and Dana Remus, asked Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro whether he had ever been an Israeli agent or communicated with "an undercover agent of Israel," according to Shapiro's forthcoming memoir.

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Biden-voting Secret Service agent stripped of security clearance after spilling beans to undercover reporter



The U.S. Secret Service has placed an agent assigned to Vice President JD Vance's protective detail on administrative leave after he allegedly divulged sensitive security secrets to an undercover female reporter.

In footage published on Tuesday by investigative journalist James O'Keefe, USSS agent Tomas Escotto appears to share various specifics regarding Vance's security detail with the reporter as well as photos revealing the methods used to transport the vice president.

'When one person falls short, it places an added burden on colleagues who are left to rebuild trust.'

"What we uncovered is troubling," said O'Keefe, who indicated that the engagements took place in the wake of the attempted break-in at Vance's Cincinnati home. "We hope that bringing this to light strengthens security and helps prevent future vulnerabilities in our government."

The video and text messages published by O'Keefe appear to show that Escotto, a self-identified Biden voter, provided the reporter with:

  • real-time locations of the vice president;
  • insights into Vance's future travel plans;
  • the particulars of how far ahead and behind agents walk in relation to Vance;
  • the security detail's shift schedule;
  • photographs taken on duty containing location metadata; and
  • photographs providing insights into how the vice president's vehicle is secured and stored for international travel.

After indicating in the footage that he only received his citizenship in 2018, Escotto criticizes the Trump administration's immigration policies, stating, "They're deploying tactics that shouldn't be deployed."

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O'Keefe noted that ahead of publishing the video, his team coordinated with the USSS, redacting sensitive operational details at their request.

Blaze News has reached out to Vance's office for comment.

Deputy Secret Service Director Matthew Quinn confirmed in a statement to O'Keefe that the incident is under investigation and "the employee involved has been placed on administrative leave with his clearance suspended and access to agency facilities and systems revoked."

The USSS is now also requiring all personnel to retake the agency's anti-espionage training "in order to ensure employees are aware of the threats posed by individuals aiming to exploit agency employees for information about our protective operations."

Quinn said in a memo to USSS employees that was obtained by O'Keefe, "Over the past several months, an agency employee was deliberately targeted and manipulated by a citizen-journalism media organization that misrepresented itself in an effort to get close to the employee and expose sensitive information. This is the second time in less than a year that our personnel have been subjected to this same deceptive tactic."

"When one person falls short, it places an added burden on colleagues who are left to rebuild trust that each of us works hard every day to earn and protect," added Quinn.

Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet was among those who emphasized the gravity of O'Keefe's damning exposé, stating, "This is one of the most disturbing videos I've seen in some time. Those tasked with protecting the president, VP, and their families should be a top national priority."

"That a Secret Service agent could be leaking sensitive information and endangering their lives is a national security threat of the highest importance," added Kolvet.

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, noted, "The Secret Service is a dangerous mess."

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'Something historic': CNN analyst GOBSMACKED by how Vance polls against Nikki Haley, others



The 2028 presidential election is 34 months away, and in that time, there are sure to be plenty of surprises. There are, however, already clear signs of who may ultimately make a bid for the White House — and how they might fare in the primaries.

CNN's chief data analyst, Harry Enten, expressed surprise on Monday by how Vice President JD Vance performed in a recent poll of likely New Hampshire Republican primary voters against former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nimarata "Nikki" Haley, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and other prospects.

'The rest of the field are like going around in go-karts.'

Enten alluded to prediction market odds indicating that Vance is "running well ahead of the field" and that "nobody else is even close."

Polymarket puts Vance's chance of becoming the Republican presidential nominee in 2028 at 54%. The site has the chances of the runner-up, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, securing the nomination at 9%. This high confidence in Vance's chances is similarly expressed on the PredictIt site as well as on the federally regulated prediction market Kalshi, which suggests Vance and Rubio have a 48% and 10% chance of securing the nomination, respectively.

"JD Vance is like Mario Andretti, and Marco Rubio and the rest of the field are like going around in go-karts at this point," said Enten. "That's really what we are looking at. JD Vance is the clear, heavy favorite at this time."

Enten noted that Vance's staggering early lead reflected in the prediction markets "is not coming out of nowhere" and directed CNN talking head Sara Sidner's attention to a poll conducted in October by the University of New Hampshire.

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The poll found that among those who plan to vote in the 2028 Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire, 51% said they would vote for Vance; 9% said they would vote for Haley; 8% said they would vote for Gabbard; 5% said they would vote for Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders; 4% would vote for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.); and 3% each would vote for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

Calgary-born Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who appears poised to run as the kind of Republican President Donald Trump crushed in the 2016 and 2024 GOP primaries, proved unable to capture 1% in the poll.

"Take a look here! JD Vance at 51%!" said Enten. "The next closest is Nikki Haley, who's at 9 — who's at 9! I mean, what is that? That's 42 points ahead of the pack."

"There's a reason why he's such a heavy favorite in the prediction market so far, because if you win the GOP primary in New Hampshire, chances are, you're going to be the Republican nominee for president," added Enten.

When asked by Sidner whether it was rare to see an early lead of this magnitude, Enten said, "I looked back. Hitting 50% plus in the early New Hampshire polls for a non-sitting president — JD Vance is the only one."

"JD Vance is pulling off something historic at this time," continued Enten.

While Vance's early lead is unprecedented, the last five sitting vice presidents who ran for president all became their parties' nominees.

A straw poll was also taken earlier this month at Turning Point USA's annual AmericaFest, where widowed CEO Erika Kirk endorsed the vice president.

Blake Neff, the producer of "The Charlie Kirk Show," noted that Vance won the AmFest straw poll "by more than Donald Trump won the 2024 one we did two years ago." Whereas 82.6% of respondents previously said they wanted to see Trump as the 2024 GOP nominee, 84.2% of respondents said they wanted to see Vance as their nominee in 2028.

The UNH poll that found a majority of likely GOP voters support Vance likewise found that there is a much closer race developing across the aisle.

Among those who plan to vote in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, 19% of respondents say they would vote for former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg; 15% would vote for California Gov. Gavin Newsom; 14% would vote for New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; 11% would vote for failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris; 8% would vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); and 6% would vote for Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

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Vance refuses to throw Tucker Carlson under the bus, emphasizes America is a 'Christian nation'



Several speakers at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest offered competing and ostensibly irreconcilable views of the way forward for the MAGA coalition, in some cases identifying one another as cowards, saboteurs, or worse.

In his speech closing out the conference in Phoenix, Vice President JD Vance emphasized that "President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless, self-defeating purity tests."

'Do I have disagreements with Tucker Carlson? Sure. I have disagreements with most of my friends.'

Vance, the Republican front-runner going into 2028 whom TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk endorsed last week for president, faces mounting public pressure to throw Tucker Carlson under the bus over his criticism of Israel and perceived bigotry as well as to censure Nicholas Fuentes, the head of the so-called Groypers who has been particularly critical of the vice president.

Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of "The Charlie Kirk Show," told the Washington Post, "The reasonable actors can see that JD is being a reasonable arbiter of this debate, and that’s a really important signal to send out — that Israel is our ally. They're an important ally. They're not our only concern, though."

"I think JD understands the needs, wants, and concerns of young Americans as well, if not better than, any other leading politician in the country," added Kolvet.

"I didn't bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform," Vance told the crowd of thousands gathered on Sunday.

"We have far more important work to do than canceling each other."

The vice president underscored that the "America First movement" constitutes a big tent welcoming those who seek to make America "richer, stronger, safer, and prouder."

In a recent interview with Sohrab Ahmari, the U.S. editor of UnHerd, Vance provided some insights into why he refused to denounce Carlson or waste any time discussing Fuentes.

"Tucker's a friend of mine," he told Ahmari. "And do I have disagreements with Tucker Carlson? Sure. I have disagreements with most of my friends, especially those who work in politics. You know this. Most people who know me know this. I’m [also] a very loyal person, and I am not going to get into the business of throwing friends under the bus."

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Vance noted further that "the idea that Tucker Carlson — who has one of the largest podcasts in the world, who has millions of listeners, who supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election, who supported me in the 2024 election — the idea that his views are somehow completely anathema to conservatism, that he has no place in the conservative movement, is frankly absurd."

As for Fuentes, Vance intimated that a condemnation of the 27-year-old host of "America First" podcast wasn't worthwhile.

"[Fuentes'] influence within Donald Trump's administration, and within a whole host of institutions on the right, is vastly overstated, and frankly, it's overstated by people who want to avoid having a foreign-policy conversation about America's relationship with Israel," Vance said in the interview.

'Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat s**t.'

While the vice president maintains that Israel is an "important ally," he indicated that he welcomes substantive disagreements with the Middle Eastern nation as well as debates at home about American foreign policy.

Vance told Ahmari that anti-Semitism and all forms of ethnic hatred "have no place in the conservative movement" but noted that "if you believe racism is bad, Fuentes should occupy one second of your focus, and the people with actual political power who worked so hard to discriminate against white men should occupy many hours of it."

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Although recognizing Fuentes as an apparent sideshow to an important conversation, Vance did make a point of telling Ahmari, "Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is [former Biden press secretary] Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat s**t."

On the theme of America First's genuine spirit of inclusion, the vice president made clear in his AmericaFest speech that the Trump administration and the broader movement supporting it has "relegated DEI to the dustbin of history, which is exactly where it belongs."

"In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white any more. And if you're an Asian, you don't have to talk around your skin color when you're applying for college, because we judge people based on who they are, not on ethnicity and things they can't control," said Vance. "We don't persecute you for being male, for being straight, for being gay, for being anything. The only thing that we demand is that you be a great American patriot."

'It is better to die a patriot than live a coward.'

In addition to risking offense with his acknowledgement that white Americans needn't apologize for their pigmentation and with his refusal to betray a friend, Vance realized the fears articulated in recent years by liberals and anti-Christian activists by noting in his speech that "the only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been, and by the grace of God, we always will be, a Christian nation."

For the benefit of those who might strategically misconstrue his meaning, Vance clarified that Americans don't have to be Christian but that "Christianity is America's creed," despite the decades-long campaign by the left to remove Christianity from public life.

"That creed motivated our understanding of natural law and rights, our sense of duty to one’s neighbor, the conviction that the strong must protect the weak, and the belief in individual conscience," continued the vice president. "Even our famously American idea of religious liberty is a Christian concept."

The vice president noted further that the "fruits of true Christianity" are good men like his murdered friend, Charlie Kirk.

"The fruits of true Christianity are good husbands, patient fathers, builders of great things, and slayers of dragons," said Vance. "And yes, men who are willing to die for a principle if that's what God asks them to do. Because so many of us recognize that it is better to die a patriot than live a coward."

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JD Vance Closes AmericaFest With Final Repudiation Of Ben Shapiro’s Call For Cancelations
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'6-7' gets 86'd! JD Vance jokes about banning meme — and one company actually does it



Vice President JD Vance has had enough of the nonsensical viral meme that has children saying "six seven."

The meme, which children have explained does not have a real meaning, involves simply saying the numbers and then performing a meaningless hand gesture.

'Where did this even come from? I don't understand it.'

Guided missal

The vice president jokingly expressed his disdain for the meme on X recently, saying, "Yesterday at church the Bible readings started on page 66-67 of the missal, and my 5-year-old went absolutely nuts repeating 'six seven' like 10 times."

Vance continued, "And now I think we need to make this narrow exception to the first amendment and ban these numbers forever."

"Where did this even come from? I don't understand it. When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story," he added.

Hold the meme

Little did Vance know, one company was already in the middle of instituting its own ban.

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According to People, In-N-Out Burger has officially retired the number 67 from its ordering system, meaning the digits are skipped over when customers receive their order numbers to wait in the queue.

The West Coast chain had been hit with crowds of children anticipating, and filming, the number being called in the restaurant. When the number is called, the children cheer as if they've taken another victory.

People also reported that a Los Angeles location of In-N-Out Burger confirmed the company had also banned the number 69 from its ticket system.

Origin unknown

Although the children themselves admit they are purposely doing a trend that has no meaning with "six seven," many adults simply can't help but look for an origin story for the meme.

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Dictionary.com deemed "six seven" its "Word of the Year" and claimed the "most modern use" of the phrase is attributed to a rap song called "Doot Doot (6 7)" by the artist Skrilla.

People said the meme may also be attributed to NBA player LaMelo Ball from the Charlotte Hornets because he wears the number 67.

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Radicals want Usha Vance deported from US after vice president highlights problems with mass migration



Vice President JD Vance appears to have struck a nerve on the left and among foreigners with his recent comments about the fallout of mass migration. Rather than rebut Vance's claims, liberals have instead attacked his family and called for their removal from the country.

"Mass migration is theft of the American Dream," Vance wrote in an X post on Sunday that has received a great deal of attention from Indian media outlets. "It has always been this way, and every position paper, think tank piece, and economic study suggesting otherwise is paid for by the people getting rich off the old system."

Accompanying the vice president's comments was a video of a self-identified construction company owner in Louisiana discussing the positive impact of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

'You have to send Usha, her Indian family, and your biracial kids back to India.'

"So we've had ICE and DHS down in Louisiana for about a week now," said the 27-year-old entrepreneur who said his last name was Flores. "I'm seeing firsthand just the shockwave them boys are sending across this state. No immigrants want to go to work. None of 'em even want to ride in a truck like mine with a ladder rack on it — and it is so amazing. I've gotten more calls in the last week than I've gotten in the last three months."

The entrepreneur suggested that the recent demand for citizen labor "just shows you how bad the problem is down here in Louisiana."

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Vance has repeatedly sounded the alarm about wage suppression and other consequences suffered by American-born citizens as a result of the mass migration enabled by previous administrations.

At an October Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi, Vance noted that "thanks in part to the Biden border invasion but also thanks in part to a lot of bad immigration policy, right now, we have let in too many immigrants into the United States of America."

The Pew Research Center indicated that as of January 2025, there were 53.3 million immigrants living in the U.S. — the largest number ever recorded. Over 15% of all U.S. residents and 19% of the U.S. labor force were immigrants.

Vance noted that the evidence was "pretty clear" that many of the over one million migrants who legally enter the U.S. annually "are actually undercutting the wages of American workers" and that the H-1B visa has effectively allowed companies to pay a discount on what they would have paid an American citizen.

Like his statements in October, Vance's Sunday remarks about the theft of the American dream enraged activists and interlopers.

Among those prickled by Vance's remarks was Wajahat Ali, a former columnist at the Daily Beast and contributor to the New York Times, who recently suggested that it was futile to send antipathetic foreigners packing because they supposedly enjoy too strong a foothold in the U.S. owing to chain migration, miscegenation, and their fecundity.

Ali, responding to Vance's "theft of the American Dream" post, wrote, "That means you have to send Usha, her Indian family, and your biracial kids back to India."

"Let us know when [sic] buy the plane tickets," continued the son of convicted fraudsters who immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan. "You must lead by example."

Usha Vance — a Yale Law School graduate who served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts — is, like her three children, an American citizen born in the United States. Additionally her immigrant parents aren't a pair of low-skilled laborers who came to suppress working-class wages but are rather a high-skilled couple — a mechanical engineer father and a molecular biologist mother.

Whatever example would be set by removing Vance's family members would have nothing to do with the point the vice president was making. Nevertheless others joined Ali in strategically lumping Vance's U.S.-born family members in with the low-skilled foreign-born horde and/or calling for their removal from the country.

The popular U.K.-based X user @AdameMedia, for instance, wrote, "Your wife and children are stealing the American dream."

Vance's office did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

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Poll provides clear idea of who's poised to sweep 2028 Republican presidential primary



Those keen to wrest control of the GOP from MAGA conservatives and to resume the course charted by the party prior to President Donald Trump's 2016 election have their work cut out for them.

A new poll conducted by the Saint Anselm College Survey Center at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics revealed that Vice President JD Vance presently towers over his potential 2028 GOP primary opponents — including Calgary-born Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who is poised to run as the kind of George W. Bush-era Republican that Trump crushed in the 2016 and 2024 primaries.

'Voters will sniff out anybody who has seemed to be sort of focused on themselves.'

When asked whom they would vote for if the election were held this month, 57% of respondents said that they would support Vance; 9% said Secretary of State Marco Rubio; 7% said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis; 4% said Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy; 4% said former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nimarata "Nikki" Haley; 4% said Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard; 1% said Ted Cruz; and 1% said Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Two percent of respondents signaled they would vote for someone else, and 10% said they were unsure.

Sources close to the Trump administration recently told Politico that Rubio has telegraphed that he would support Vance if he chooses to run.

One source close to the White House noted that the "expectation is JD as [nominee] and Rubio as VP."

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DeSantis, who secured less than 2% of the votes cast in the 2024 Republican primary before dropping out, recently told CNN's Jake Tapper, "I'm not thinking about anything because I think we have a president now who’s not even been in for a year. We've got a lot that we've got to accomplish."

The Florida governor may have taken the advice that James Blair, a former DeSantis staffer who now serves as Trump's White House deputy chief of staff, recently shared via Politico: "If you're a Republican that wants to run in 2028 right now, you need to focus on keeping Republicans in power for 2026. I think the number one thing everybody can do is focus on the team and helping their team and not focus on themselves."

"Voters will sniff out anybody who has seemed to be sort of focused on themselves," added Blair.

Last month, the University of New Hampshire's Granite State Poll found that while DeSantis didn't place in the top five Republican presidential primary candidates for 2028, he managed the fourth-highest favorability rating.

Vance placed first with a favorability rating among likely Republican primary voters of 77%; Rubio placed second with a 58% rating; Gabbard placed third with a 57% rating; DeSantis came fourth with a 56% rating; and Ramaswamy came fifth with 46%.

Cruz and Haley, meanwhile, were much further down the list with favorability ratings of 38% and 25%, respectively.

Gabbard, polling ahead of Cruz in the Saint Anselm College poll, has not made explicit any intention to run but indicated earlier this year on "The Megyn Kelly Show" that she "will never rule out any opportunity" to serve her country.

On the prediction website Polymarket, Vance is given a 55% chance of winning the primary.

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'You know what really p**ses people off?' Vance identifies what's at heart of 'populist resentment' in Appalachia



Vice President JD Vance joined Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Make America Healthy Again summit on Wednesday in discussing the Trump administration's revolution against the unworkable state of affairs and orthodoxies that have left so many Americans sick, censored, poor, and behind.

After the duo discussed President Donald Trump's penchant for taking "a bulldozer to Overton windows," Kennedy raised the matter of the dire health and social conditions in Appalachia, noting that Vance's incredible success serves as a "tragic reminder of the lost potential of almost everybody else in Appalachia."

'Their loved ones are dying much sooner than everybody else.'

"It's got the worst health data of any region in the country — the highest cardiac disease, the highest obesity, the highest diabetes, the highest stroke rates — but also addiction, alcoholism, and suicide," said Kennedy.

Although dubbed a "golden child of Appalachia" by the HHS secretary, Vance emphasized his firsthand familiarity with the bleak conditions experienced by so many in the region, noting that he was hard-pressed to identify a single important male family figure who lived past the age of 70.

"You want to talk about, like, 'populism'? And you want to talk about people being pissed off? Well, yeah, people are pissed off when they don't have good jobs; and people are pissed off when things disappear and move overseas; and people are pissed off when they feel like, you know, other countries are being prioritized over the United States of America," said Vance. "All of that is part of the populist resentment of the past 20 or 30 years in American politics."

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"But you know what really pisses people off?" continued the vice president. "When they realize that their loved ones are dying much sooner than everybody else."

Life expectancy has long been lower and infant mortality higher in Appalachia than in the rest of the country.

Vance noted that while on the one hand, he feels guilty that so many of his fellow Appalachians have not enjoyed the opportunities for economic and familial stability that he has enjoyed, he also feels "a great sense of anger because we never should have gotten to the point that we are today, and the reason that we have is because of failed leadership — and it's failed leadership over generations."

The vice president stressed that one of the reasons he strongly supports Kennedy's health initiatives is because therein lies a major opportunity to do right by Appalachian residents who have been "left behind by this country's leadership."

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Vance schools yappy student on problems with immigration: 'There's too many people who want to come'



Vice President JD Vance taught college students an important lesson on the problems associated with mass immigration at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday.

After delivering his prepared remarks with Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk — emphasizing the importance of avoiding pointless foreign entanglements, securing America's borders, and altogether prioritizing citizens — Vance respectfully gave a few students much-needed reality checks.

One of the questioners prefaced by noting that his girlfriend was studying in the country on a student visa, then asked Vance about his views on legal immigration.

'My job as vice president is not to look out for the interests of the whole world.'

"Thanks in part to the Biden border invasion but also thanks in part to a lot of bad immigration policy, right now, we have let in too many immigrants into the United States of America," Vance responded.

The Pew Research Center recently indicated that as of January 2025, there were 53.3 million immigrants living in the U.S. — the largest number ever recorded. Over 15% of all U.S. residents and 19% of the U.S. labor force were immigrants.

The vice president suggested that "the evidence is pretty clear" that a great many of the over 1 million migrants who legally enter the U.S. every year "are actually undercutting the wages of American workers," and suggested that such wage suppression is what prompted President Donald Trump and his administration to encourage H-1B reform.

Vance indicated further that while the intended function of the H-1B visa is to attract and retain top talent from around the world, "what it's actually used to do is hire an accountant at a 50% discount to an American citizen. I don't think that we should be hiring accountants from foreign countries when we've got accountants right here in the United States that would love to work for a good wage."

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"We have got to get our overall numbers way, way down," the vice president said, adding that the nation needs time to "build a sense of common identity" before admitting more people.

Vance's remarks evidently vexed a young female student of apparent Indian origin in the crowd who used her time at the microphone to complain both about the vice president's stated desire for his Hindu wife to one day join him in following Christ as well as his desire to taper the number of immigrants legally admitted into the United States.

"When you talk about too many immigrant [sic] here, what is — when did you guys decide that number? Why did you sell us a dream? You made us spend our youth, our wealth in this country and gave us a dream," the woman said.

"How can you as a vice president stand there and say that 'we have too many of them now, and we are going to take them out' to people who are here, rightfully so?" she asked.

After clarifying that he was proposing greatly reducing the number of foreigner admissions in the future while honoring past promises to previous entrants, Vance stressed between interruptions from the woman that immigration policy should be adapted to the circumstances of the day.

"We cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50 or 60 years ago binds the country inevitably for the future," the vice president said. "There's too many people who want to come to the United States of America, and my job as vice president is not to look out for the interests of the whole world. It's to look out for the people of the United States."

While the questioner did not appear all too pleased with Vance's America-first answer, the crowd burst into applause.

Before the conclusion of the event, the vice president told the crowd, "Despair is a sin. Do not give in to the sin of despair. Let's keep fighting to save the United States of America."

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