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This is on point. I'm Meghna Chakrabardi. July has proven to be one of the most

consequential months in American political history with a new presumptive

Democratic presidential nominee in

Kamala Harris and the recently named Republican vice presidential pick

JD Vance. American voters now have less than 100 days to understand what these two leaders truly believe

and how they'd act on those principles. Yesterday we talked about Kamala Harris. Today

it's JD Vance.

Vance turns 40 years old on Friday, and if elected, he'd be one of the youngest vice presidents in American history.

As such, his formal political record right now isn't all

that long. He's only run for office once. That was in 2022 when he won the Ohio Senate race.

Vance was sworn in January 2023.

So he's been a freshman senator for just a year and a half.

It's hard to discern exactly how he acts on his beliefs

with such a short voting record. But what are Senator Vance's authentic beliefs? What are the different places they come from?

Well part of the answer requires us to take a walk into the uncanny Silicon Valley. One of the things that consistently comes up in my campaign is this concept of red-pilling and if you ever heard this term it comes from the movie the matrix which as I understand it is made by a couple of people who do not share the politics of the people in this room

but the basic idea is that once you see the way that knowledge is transmitted once you see the way that public policy works in this country

It's very hard to unsee it

in November 2021 during his Senate run, JD Vance gave the keynote address at the

second National Conservatism Conference.

The conference is a sort of who's who of what's been referred to as the new right.

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