A profile of JD Vance
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
JD Vance is Donald Trump's running mate, we speak to his university roommate and explore how Vance went from a never-Trumper to his running mate. Also on the programme: Kenyan police arrest a man who says he killed 42 women; and the remote mountain-top rainforest in Mozambique, now a conservation area.
(Photo: JD Vance walking with his wife in the Republican national Convention. Credit: Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Rebecca Kessby and we begin the program on the latest political thunderbolt from the USA and the |
| 0:15.1 | Republican National Convention taking place in the city of Milwaukee |
| 0:18.8 | Wisconsin and that is that JD Vance has been named as Donald Trump's running mate for the presidential is a member of the |
| 0:23.0 | running mate for the presidential ticket. In a few minutes we'll be hearing |
| 0:27.2 | from Josh McLaurin. He is a member of the Georgia State Senate for the |
| 0:31.6 | Democrats and he was also J.D. Vance College roommate |
| 0:36.0 | at Yale Law School. But first to the convention where emotions were running high yesterday |
| 0:41.5 | as Donald Trump appeared in the flesh alive and well |
| 0:44.8 | following the assassination attempt against him at the weekend a bandaged ear the |
| 0:49.8 | only outward sign of his very near death experience. |
| 0:53.8 | Our North America correspondent Nomea Iqbal was there. |
| 0:57.8 | This convention will come to order. |
| 1:16.4 | Welcome to the Mr Trump walked down a red carpet. He looked tired and emotional as the audience greeted him raptureously. |
| 1:18.4 | J Trump. |
| 1:21.9 | This basketball arena in Milwaukee has turned into a gathering of the Trump faithful. |
| 1:27.0 | Earlier in the day his family, including son Eric Trump, arrived here. |
| 1:31.0 | What happened a couple days ago was completely unacceptable as everybody knows. |
| 1:35.4 | And my part absolutely broke. |
| 1:37.4 | It shouldn't have happened. |
| 1:38.4 | The Secret Service agents on the ground did an unbelievable job. |
| 1:42.0 | They watched nearly 2.5,000 delegations. an unbelievable they watch nearly two and a half thousand delegates |
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