Trump's Vice President is... JD Vance!
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4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We are live at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Sarah and Anthony talk through the big announcement of the night. Donald Trump has announced that JD Vance, the senator of Ohio, will be his running mate and vice-president if he returns to the White House.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | We're at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and there are some sites to see here. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm sure you've seen plenty, Anthony II. |
| 0:12.0 | My highlights are a man in a suit which is |
| 0:15.5 | pattern to look like it's a brick wall he turns up at most them Donald Trump |
| 0:19.0 | events to chant build the wall build the wall build the wall some march like you cannot believe, including Bible signed by Donald Trump that go for an |
| 0:26.8 | unbelievable price and a limestone bust carving of Trump himself. What have you spotted Anthony? |
| 0:32.6 | Well, we've got flags everywhere, big Republican signs outside the arena, and of course all the different |
| 0:38.0 | state delegations on the floor of the Convention Hall. Near and dear to my heart of course is the Texas delegation |
| 0:44.1 | who are all wearing red Western shirts and their trademark cowboy hat Stetsons and |
| 0:49.6 | you can you can spot them from anywhere there are more Texans than almost any other state and they are very proud about it as Texans usually are. |
| 0:57.5 | Those hats are ludicrously big. Why are they so big? The bigger the hat, the bigger the Texan, I think. So, you know, they are very proud of them. |
| 1:05.2 | And they want people to be able to see them from far away. |
| 1:07.2 | And of course, the big news from here today is that Donald Trump has picked his running |
| 1:11.0 | mate, his vice presidential candidate. |
| 1:13.0 | Yes, that's J.D. Vance, the senator from Ohio, is now going to be Donald Trump's running mate. |
| 1:18.0 | Welcome to America. |
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