Welcome to the Eric McTaxis show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Yes, I'm talking to J.D. Vance.

Even now in Hour 2, J.D., were you aware that this was hour two?

I was not. Don't be frightened. It's just like hour one, only more. So you are running for the Senate seat being vacated by Rob Portman in Ohio.

Right. Has President Trump officially endorsed you, or is he playing that brilliant

Trump 5D chess game that he plays?

I don't know.

The president, I have had some good conversations about the race, but no, he has not

formally endorsed anybody in the race yet.

I am hopeful that when he does, when he does, he's going to pull the

trigger for me. Is there anybody comparable to you? Anybody with your... Of course not. Of course not.

Yeah. It's, I mean, it's a somewhat crowded primary. Yeah. But again, a primary that I feel very

confident we're going to win. The general election, you know, Ohio is still a purple state, even though Trump won by eight points.

That hasn't happened for most Republicans statewide in the state of Ohio that haven't got quite those margins.

So I think, look, we've got a tough race to run, but I feel very good about it, and I think the president's going to be very helpful.

Okay. Now, a lot of people listening are wondering wondering why do you care about elections when, and I don't mean you, why should one care about elections when one is not confident that the 20 presidential election was run in a way that reflected the will of the people.

That, again, is one of these horrific moments in our history.

I won't shut up about it.

I refuse to.

I'm offended that I even should when I know what I know.

You shouldn't know.

I mean, look, I think, of course, there are very few even national politicians at this point who are willing to talk about some of the issues that we saw in 2020 from the Zuckerbach's to the fact that you had, you know, people running multiple loads of ballots as evidenced by geolocation data in the cell phones that we all carry around. So no, I think we should continue to ask questions about it. Well, why care about

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