Folks’s Gentle
Malvern, Pennsylvania
11:54 A.M. EDT
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Let’s get to it.
MS. LONGWELL: Let’s do it. Let’s do it.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody.
AUDIENCE: Good morning.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Comfortable birthday!
MS. LONGWELL: Oh, glad belated birthday. (Applause.) Oh, yeah.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thanks. Thanks. I respect that. Thanks.
MS. LONGWELL: Viewers members exhibiting me up — that’s robust. (Laughter.)
Okay. So, I’ve acquired to start out with the factor that brings us right here at this time, as a result of I’ve acquired to say it’s uncommon for any individual who was as excessive up within the Republican management as Liz Cheney was to be out right here campaigning with the Democratic nominee for president.
And so, perhaps — why don’t each of you inform us, however you begin: You’ve truly marshaled unprecedented assist from Republicans on this election. Why do you suppose that’s?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thanks, Sarah. Thanks for being right here and to your work. And the congresswoman, thanks.
I — I’ve stated earlier than and it have to be repeated every time: There are moments within the historical past of our nation which problem us, every of us, to actually determine can we stand for these issues that we discuss, together with, specifically, nation over social gathering. And you’ve got been terribly brave in the way in which that you’ve carried out that. And I thanks for that. (Applause.)
So, you recognize, I’ve in my profession now — whether or not it was because the elected district lawyer, elected lawyer basic, after which elected United States senator, and, after all, now vp — I’ve counted that I’ve taken the oath of workplace six instances. And for the elected leaders right here, we all know it’s an oath that one should take sincerely and unequivocally, which is an oath, amongst different issues, to assist and defend the Structure of america and to know what these rules symbolize and what they require of the person who holds the workplace and the general public belief.
And let’s not undervalue that time as effectively. It’s not in regards to the particular person. It’s not about what’s of their private pursuits. It’s about what’s for and within the spirit of the general public good.
And this can be a second on this election that presents an actual distinction amongst how I, as one of many two nominees, and my opponent, the previous president, consider that obligation. And it’s a obligation, by the way in which. There are particular issues in our lives that we now have the selection if we really feel prefer it — (laughter) — after which there are particular issues which are simply basically an obligation, like to boost our youngsters. Issues of that nature. It’s a obligation to take significantly that oath and do it for the sake of the general public good and within the public belief.
And I feel that at this second, with the selection that the American individuals have on this election in — in two weeks and in the future, this election is presenting — for the primary time, most likely, in actually latest historical past — a really clear selection and distinction between the 2 nominees. And I feel that’s what, as a lot as something, is bringing us, as Individuals, collectively, who’re understanding that we can’t, with such basic stakes being introduced, afford to be mired in ideological variations with out actually staking our declare to probably the most basic beliefs upon which our nation stands.
MS. LONGWELL: Thanks. And, you recognize, Congresswoman Cheney, it’s a — type of the identical query to you. However I acquired to ask: You already know, it’s one factor for Republicans to signal a letter. You already know, we’ve seen that she has — Vice President Harris has been endorsed by 200 Republicans within the nationwide safety house, all types of individuals from George W. Bush’s administration. There’s been lots of people — they’ll signal letters and perhaps they’ll go on T.V., they’ll launch an announcement. I used to be simply with Republican Congressman Charlie Dent — former Republican congressman right here from the state. He voted for you in his early voting.
However you might be out right here campaigning. You might be out right here holding occasions. So, discuss why it’s been so vital to you to be as concerned as you might be in getting Vice President Harris elected.
MS. CHENEY: Properly, thanks a lot, Sarah, for the query. And — and it’s an honor to be right here at this time with you, Madam Vice President.
You already know — (applause) —
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thanks.
MS. CHENEY: — for me, each — each single factor in — in my expertise and in my background has — has performed an element in my determination to endorse Vice President Harris.
And, you recognize, that — that begins with the truth that I’m a conservative, and I do know that probably the most conservative of all conservative rules is being trustworthy to the Structure. And it’s a must to select, on this race, between somebody who has been trustworthy to the Structure, who will likely be trustworthy, and Donald Trump, who it’s not simply us predicting how he’ll act. We watched what he did after the final election. We watched what he did on January sixth.
And so, coming to this as somebody who’s been a lifelong Republican, a lifelong conservative, additionally as somebody who spent — I frolicked working abroad earlier than I used to be elected to Congress, and I’ve — I’ve frolicked working in nations the place individuals aren’t free and the place individuals are struggling for his or her freedom, and I understand how — how shortly democracies can unravel.
And I do know that, as Individuals, we will turn out to be accustomed to considering, “Properly, we don’t have to fret about that right here.” However I inform you, once more, as somebody who has seen firsthand how shortly it may well occur, that that’s what’s on the poll. That’s completely what’s on the poll.
I additionally — I come to this determination as a mom. I’ve 5 youngsters. And there was a second proper after January sixth when my husband and I have been having dinner with our two youngest, our two sons, and I seemed throughout the desk at my — my younger sons, and I believed to myself, “You already know, within the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol, are they going to develop up in a rustic the place we don’t have to fret in regards to the peaceable switch of energy? Are they going to develop up in a rustic the place that’s assured?”
And — and I imagine that each one of us on this election has an obligation and an obligation to do what we all know is true for the nation, and that’s to assist Vice President Harris. So, I’m very honored to be right here and to try this. (Applause.)
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thanks.
You already know, if I can simply echo the congresswoman’s level. So, I’ve now, as vp, met over 150 world leaders — presidents, prime ministers, chancellors, and kings — lots of them a number of instances, to the purpose we’re on a first-name foundation. And the previous couple of instances that I’ve seen them within the relative eve of this election, they’re very involved, our allies. As a result of, as you recognize, once we stroll in these rooms around the globe representing america of America, we now have historically been capable of stroll in these rooms chin up, shoulders again, with the self-appointed and earned authority to speak in regards to the significance of democracies and rule of regulation.
However as all of the function fashions right here know, as a job mannequin, individuals watch what you do to see if it strains up with what you say. Folks around the globe are watching this.
And I — I inform you, generally I do fret a bit about whether or not we, as Individuals, actually perceive how vital we’re to the world. I hope everybody does actually perceive that we symbolize one thing — imperfect although we actually are; flawed although we could also be — we symbolize, by way of our beliefs, the — the idea of our Structure, we symbolize a gold customary.
And when we now have somebody who has been president, who desires to be president once more, who’s saying he can be dictator on day one, would weaponize our Division of Justice — one of many rules of our democracy is that we are saying we now have a justice system that’s blind, that’s not punitive towards one’s enemies, they’re watching.
So, that is about direct influence on the American individuals, and it most actually will influence individuals around the globe.
MS. LONGWELL: You already know, I’m so glad you introduced that up. And I — I — as a follow-up, I might simply ask Congressman Cheney too. We reside in a harmful time. I imply, I feel Individuals are watching what’s occurring abroad in Ukraine, in Israel. Republicans — we was the social gathering that will be on the aspect of our democratic allies like Ukraine.
Discuss to me somewhat bit and all of us about why, from a international coverage standpoint, you end up capable of endorse Democrats, who w- — wouldn’t — it didn’t was that method.
MS. CHENEY: Properly, it — it’s not simply capable of endorse them. However — however should you take a look at the numbers of probably the most senior officers who served Donald Trump — his personal vp; nationwide safety advisors; his chief of workers; you recognize, the — the main generals who served him — who’ve all stated he’s unfit, and folks actually need to cease and take into consideration how fully unprecedented that’s.
And the — the concept — when individuals type of say, “Properly, we would, you recognize, be tempted, for some motive or one other, to vote for Donald Trump” — if the difficulty is international coverage, I might simply ask everybody: Take into consideration how harmful and damaging it’s to have somebody who’s completely erratic — completely erratic, fully unstable — somebody who has aligned himself with, who idolizes tyrants. He idolizes tyrants.
You already know, the — the — once more, the selection right here, with respect to nationwide safety coverage, is a person who has confirmed — he has completely confirmed that he is not going to rise up, he gained’t defend this nation with respect to our personal Structure and rule of regulation, and Vice President Harris, who has been clear by way of assist for Ukraine, by way of recognizing and understanding throughout the board that America can’t preserve our personal freedom and safety if we stroll away from our allies around the globe.
And our adversaries know that they’ll play Donald Trump. They completely know that they’ll play him. And we merely can’t afford to take that danger.
So, as somebody who has spent a profession on nationwide safety points — once more, this was under no circumstances a tough selection for me — the — the selection right here is completely clear by way of the need of supporting Vice President Harris.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: And — and if I could emphasize, a part of the spine of our nationwide safety is our army. And let’s please not overlook how somebody who desires to be commander in chief and was has talked about our servicemen and ladies; has talked about an American hero like John McCain, who was a prisoner of struggle — stated he didn’t respect him, didn’t like him as a result of he acquired caught; has talked about our service members as — as if they’re lower than probably the most brave of us.
Those that placed on the uniform, who symbolize america of America, who’re keen to die for the sake of every little thing we stand for, and he calls them “suckers” and “losers.” This stuff can’t be neglected.
And — and I’ve stated many instances publicly, and I’ll say it once more: In lots of, some ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man, however the penalties of him being president of america are brutally severe. There are issues that he says that would be the topic of skits and laughter and jokes, however phrases have which means coming from somebody who aspires to face behind the seal of the president of america. These are the issues which are at stake.
MS. LONGWELL: Couldn’t agree extra.
So, I do need to ask you one other query, although, earlier than we go to the viewers. You already know, you discuss rather a lot a few new method ahead. You discuss turning the web page. What’s on the following web page? Discuss to us a few —
THE VICE PRESIDENT: You need a preview.
MS. LONGWELL: Yeah. Give me — a spoiler alert. You already know? (Laughter.) Simply —
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Proper.
MS. LONGWELL: — inform us — inform us what’s — what’s in the remainder of the chapter.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Properly, to start with, I’ll say that it — it’s a metaphor that’s meant to additionally describe my intention to embark on a brand new era of management. And for sure, mine is not going to be a continuation of the Biden administration. I deliver to it my very own concepts, my very own experiences.
However additionally it is about shifting previous what, frankly, I feel has been the final decade of — of the American discourse being influenced by Donald Trump in a method that has had the impact of suggesting we, as Individuals, ought to level the finger at each other, in a method that has been utilizing the ability of the presidency to demean and to divide us.
I feel individuals are exhausted with that, rightly. And it, frankly, doesn’t result in the energy of our nation to inform the American people who we have to be suspicious of each other, mistrust each other.
You already know, yesterday, I — I did a few church companies, and there’s a — we — many individuals right here know the — the parable of the Good Samaritan. And there’s an essence — a bit of that, in my very own phrases, that actually requires us, I feel, to see within the face of a — of a stranger, to see a neighbor. Proper? That spirit. And I feel we have to get again to that.
The spirit of the American individuals is such that, you recognize, we’re an bold individuals. We’re aspirational. We’ve goals. And that’s productive.
It’s not productive of us to be a nation of people who find themselves pointing fingers at each other, who don’t perceive that the overwhelming majority of us have a lot extra in frequent than what separates us.
So, that’s what I imply about turning the web page. After which a brand new era of management about being bold, about all we now have but to do.
A part of my financial coverage — I discuss with it as a chance financial system — is about investing in American industries whereas leaving none of our conventional, great industries behind; repurposing and retooling the factories which have led to America’s success in trade, whereas on the identical time redefining how we’re occupied with which employee has the expertise and talent to do the — the job and is certified and understanding we shouldn’t be falling right into a lure that means solely these with a university diploma have the talent or the expertise to do the job. So, let’s take a look at how we redefine and maybe even reorder.
And, actually, I’m going to start out with federal jobs, after which I’m going to problem the non-public sector to do the identical. Let’s take a look at which of these jobs would profit from a talented, skilled employee who maybe went by an apprenticeship program — not a four-year school, however nonetheless had a four-year diploma, in essence.
So, these are the sorts of issues which are about seeing the chance of this second and investing in it.
I’ll inform you — and I do know this can be a controversial subject for many people — I really like Gen Z. (Laughter.) As a result of we now have Gen Zs in our lives. We’ve children who’re Gen Zs. It may be sophisticated, I do know. I really like Gen Z.
These younger leaders are so — they’re clear-eyed. You already know, they’ve solely recognized the local weather disaster. They’ve solely recognized energetic shooter drills. I imply, we had hearth drills. Not — not our children, proper?
However in addition they — they’re — they’re so splendidly impatient — (laughter) — ri- — no, actually, that’s good. That’s good. They’re able to get in there. Let’s spend money on them. Let —
So, for instance, one among my — one piece of my alternative financial system is we acquired to cope with the fact of the place we’re proper now. The American dream, for earlier generations, was one thing that folks might form of depend on. Not a lot anymore, by way of homeownership. We’ve a housing scarcity in America. We’ve a provide scarcity.
So, a part of my plan is, hey, let’s be clear-eyed about this second. Let’s make investments sooner or later. And as a — a religious public servant, I additionally know the constraints of presidency. I need to work with the non-public sector. I’ve, in my profession. The abilities, the breadth, the depth of — of worth in these energetic partnerships profit us all.
So, a part of my plan for housing is to actively companion with constructing builders, with homebuilders to create tax credit to extend the availability of housing in America. My estimate is — I feel we will truly do it — by 3 million by the top of my first time period.
A part of my method that’s a few new era, probably, of management and positively a special method: Most of my profession was not spent in Washington, D.C. I say that with delight. (Laughter.)
In that, you recognize, most of my profession was spent as a prosecutor, however I — making selections that had a direct influence on individuals’s lives. You already know, I discovered at a really younger age, as a prosecutor, that the issues that I might do with the swipe of my pen might lead to somebody having their liberty or not.
Once I was lawyer basic of California — which is, you recognize, by estimates, the fifth-largest financial system on the earth — I used to be acutely conscious the phrases I spoke might transfer markets.
I like getting issues carried out. And a part of my method, which is, I feel, a few new era of management, is: Let’s lower by the crimson tape. Let’s lower by the paperwork whereas nonetheless understanding the virtues of the work that we will do within the public sector, be it public schooling, public well being, public security.
MS. LONGWELL: This can be a excellent segue into our first viewers query, which goes to return from Alexandra Miller from Delaware County. Predominant part, proper — proper there.
Hello, Alexandra.
Q Whats up. Whats up, Madam Vice President and Consultant Cheney.
MS. CHENEY: Hello there.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hello.
Q Thanks for taking my query at this time. My identify is Alex. I’ve a 7-year-old son and a beautiful 72-year-old mom who’s affected by dementia and requires full-time care.
My son is in second grade, my mom is in a nursing dwelling, and I work full time. The prices of childcare and of eldercare are staggering. However concurrently, professionals that assist take care of each our youngsters and our elders are typically underpaid, which makes it tough for them to assist their very own households and do the roles that they should do.
How do you plan to assist bridge this hole, making each child- and eldercare extra inexpensive for hardworking households and likewise retaining and attracting high quality expertise for this — these important jobs?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: So, to start with, you’re coping with rather a lot. You’re coping with rather a lot, and I simply want you energy and assist. You might be part of what we name the “sandwich era,” that are these mother and father and youngsters who’re proper within the center. They’re taking good care of their younger youngsters and taking good care of their mother and father as they age. And it’s rather a lot.
And so, I truly plan to handle this in a considerable method as a result of I truly deliver a private expertise to it as effectively. I took care of my mom when she was sick, and that work is the work of attempting to prepare dinner one thing that they really feel like consuming — proper? — attempting to determine which garments is not going to irritate their pores and skin and assist them placed on a sweater. It’s about attempting to determine how one can say one thing that brings a smile to their face or makes them snigger. It’s about dignity.
In the meantime, you have got a second-grader. You’re attempting to show that child the right way to learn — (laughter) — spending time with them, reminding them they’re particular and will be something.
And in the midst of all of that, if you’re working or simply to have a minute to breathe, it’s rather a lot. It’s rather a lot.
So, what — the way in which that this performs out for many individuals is — is one among simply a few methods. One, when you have the great fortune of getting sufficient extra cash, you’ll be able to rent any individual to return in. After which, precisely as you stated, you — understanding what you simply shared with us about your self — would pay them the worth of their work. Or somebody on this place must principally spend down all their financial savings so they might qualify for Medicaid, which implies they beautiful a lot should do away with every little thing. Or they should give up their job, which implies one much less revenue of their family.
And this can be a matter — this problem, for me, is a matter of dignity — yours, your mother and father, and the well-being of your baby and also you with the ability to do what you naturally need to do, and which — and the factor that we should always worth in our society, which is somebody such as you who’s taking over the obligation and the accountability of all of that.
So, my plan is that as an alternative of these situations I simply mapped out, we’ll restructure it in order that Medicare covers the price of in-home well being care to your dad or mum in order that they are often at dwelling — (applause) — and you’ll then have the help with somebody who may also help put together that meal, assist them dress, and you’ll nonetheless give that child of yours all of the love that they deserve. And you may have sanity within the course of. And everybody can have dignity.
And so, that is — that is my method, which is let’s simply take a look at this as an — let’s simply come at it from frequent sense, by the way in which. It’s simply frequent sense. And what makes — what’s a — a commonsense, sensible method to doing this, as a result of when you’ll be able to be productive, all of us profit, by the way in which. When that baby is ready to have a dad or mum who is ready to assist them with their studying and remind that baby that they’re particular, we’re all going to profit from that.
So, thanks for elevating the topic. (Applause.) And also you maintain your self.
MS. LONGWELL: Okay. Subsequent we’re going to name on Ashley Scott, talking of Gen Z — though I assume I shouldn’t assume I do know what era she’s from, however she is a scholar from Bucks County. Hello.
Q Hello, Vice President Harris and Congresswoman Cheney. My identify is Ashley Scott. I’m from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and I’m Gen Z. I’m 22 years outdated. (Laughter.)
MS. LONGWELL: Nailed it.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good for you. (Laughs.)
Q So, thanks for that flatter. However yeah, my query is about maternal well being. Particularly, in america, maternal mortality is devastating. The charges are horrible. And I used to be questioning when you have a plan to fight the disaster.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thanks, Ashley, and thanks for being right here and your voice. It’s an enormous problem. So, we now have the very, I feel, shameful distinction of — of any rich nation having one among, if not the best, fee of maternal mortality.
And I’ve studied this problem. I labored on it was on — after I was in america Senate and as vp. And the very fact is that 90 p.c of them are preventable, which tells us we will do one thing about it, proper?
And it is a matter — so, Black girls are three to 4 instances extra more likely to die in reference to childbirth; Native girls are, like, twice as probably; rural girls, one and a half instances as probably.
One of many frequent threads that you will note in these demographic populations is an absence of applicable prenatal care after which care throughout the time period of their being pregnant after which postpartum care. And we all know that when that care is on the market, they’re having a more healthy and, by the way in which, happier expertise. And the long-term influence to all of us as a society, a lot much less to that household, is immense.
And so, the work that we now have been doing and the work I intend to do going ahead is to handle that, proper? So, for instance, in rural America, the — the way in which that the system has been structured — the well being care system has been structured is a whole lot of these hospitals and clinics have needed to shut due to the way in which we — we reimburse primarily based on inhabitants measurement. And as individuals are leaving rural America, then the hospitals and the clinics can’t afford the overhead.
I’m oversimplifying however simply to make the purpose. So, we have to handle that by way of how we’re structuring, how we create incentives and — and provides the assets to these well being care services, be they clinics or hospitals.
The opposite piece that we now have to do is actually simply discuss extra in regards to the problem round additionally how, within the well being care system, we’re treating girls and are we taking girls significantly after they discuss their well being care considerations.
So, once more, private expertise, my mom had two targets in her life: to boost her two daughters, my sister and I, and to finish breast most cancers. My mom was a breast most cancers researcher. And he or she was so obsessed with girls’s well being care, and I keep in mind it as a younger woman and all through my life.
And we nonetheless have a whole lot of work to do to ensure that when she walks into that clinic, that physician’s workplace, that hospital, that when — that she’s taken significantly. And — and that’s additionally about what we do by way of coaching throughout the career. It’s additionally about what we do by way of public schooling to get info to girls in order that they know that they aren’t simply complaining and they need to not suppress or subordinate what their considerations may be about themselves as a result of they’re taking good care of everyone else.
So, there’s a whole lot of work to do. And, after all, there’s a connection between this and what we have to do because the Dobbs determination got here down, once we are taking a look at — I’ve met with a whole lot of, specifically, OB-GYNs who’re involved that there are children going by — excuse me, younger individuals going by their medical faculty who at the moment are feeling deterred from partaking in reproductive well being work.
And reproductive well being work is huge. It’s not solely about abortion; it’s about an entire array of care. And we need to ensure that we’re not creating disincentives for individuals to enter that very, essential career.
After which we additionally need to ensure that we’re, in the entire problem of reproductive care, not suggesting to girls or the individuals who love them that they need to be judged, as a result of there’s that additionally whenever you’re speaking about reproductive care, the place girls generally are made to really feel or do really feel embarrassed to speak about their wants because it pertains to their reproductive well being.
After which, after all, I really feel very strongly the federal government shouldn’t be telling any lady what to do together with her physique. (Applause.) (Laughs.) And when Congress passes a regulation reinstating the reproductive freedoms of girls, I’ll gladly and proudly signal it into regulation, as a result of I strongly imagine one doesn’t have to surrender or abandon their very own religion or beliefs to agree that — not the federal government telling her what to do. If she chooses, she’s going to seek the advice of together with her priest, her pastor, her rabbi, her imam, however not the federal government.
We’ve seen an excessive amount of hurt — actual hurt — occur to girls and the individuals who love them round our nation since that call got here down, together with girls who’ve died. And I don’t suppose that most individuals who — earlier than the Dobbs determination got here down — who had robust opinions about this — I don’t suppose most individuals meant that the hurt that we’ve seen would have truly occurred.
MS. CHENEY: Can I add to this simply to — as a result of I — I feel it’s such an vital level. And I feel there are numerous of us across the nation who’ve been pro-life however who’ve watched what’s occurring in our states because the Dobbs determination and have watched state legislatures put in place legal guidelines which are leading to girls not getting the care they want.
And so, I feel this — this isn’t a problem that we’re seeing break down throughout social gathering strains —
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Proper.
MS. CHENEY: — however I feel we’re seeing individuals come collectively to say what has occurred to girls, when girls are going through conditions the place they’ll’t get the care they want — the place in locations like Texas, for instance, the lawyer basic is speaking about suing — is suing to get entry to girls’s medical data — that’s not sustainable for us as — as a rustic, and — and it has to alter. (Applause.)
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Yeah. Yeah.
MS. LONGWELL: So, as we come near time right here, I need to ask you each form of a closing query. You already know, I — I watch the — the dialog within the nation and the way in which that the media covers this election, and it’s usually in regards to the race: Who’s up in a ballot? Who’s down in a ballot? And I — I don’t all the time really feel like we’re speaking in regards to the stakes sufficient.
And Liz Cheney wouldn’t be right here if she didn’t suppose that the stakes have been very excessive. And albeit, the Republicans wouldn’t be so offended at you in the event that they didn’t suppose you have been an efficient surrogate as any individual talking in regards to the stakes. (Applause.)
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Some Republicans. Some Republicans.
MS. LONGWELL: Some Republicans. Some Republicans. #NotAllRepublicans. (Laughter.)
THE VICE PRESIDENT: As a result of I’ve seen a whole lot of Republicans — simply I’ve seen it and I do know it occurs — who thank her consistently.
MS. LONGWELL: I — I do know it.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Yeah. Yeah.
MS. LONGWELL: I do know it.
MS. CHENEY: They’re going to vote the correct method on November fifth.
MS. LONGWELL: That’s proper.
MS. CHENEY: They may not suppose public about it, however — however they’ll do what — what they know is true. (Applause.)
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Yeah. I agree. I agree. I agree.
MS. LONGWELL: However simply to shut and — and perhaps beginning with you, Congresswoman, so you’ll be able to have the final phrase. Discuss to me and all of us in regards to the stakes. Many individuals within the room listed below are undecided voters. What’s — what’s form of the final pitch that you’d make about why this election is so vital and why you imagine they need to vote for the vp right here?
MS. CHENEY: Properly, I feel that on this election, and particularly right here in Pennsylvania, we now have the chance to inform the entire world who we’re. And we now have the possibility to say, you recognize, we’re — we’re going to reject cruelty. We’re going to reject the form of vile vitriol that we’ve seen from Donald Trump. We’re going to reject the misogyny that we’ve seen from Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. (Applause.)
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Proper.
MS. CHENEY: And we now have the possibility on this race to elect any individual who you recognize goes to defend the rule of regulation. You already know Vice President Harris goes to defend our Structure.
We’ve the possibility to remind people who we’re a superb nation. We’re a superb and honorable individuals. We’re an amazing nation.
And — and on this race, we now have the chance to vote for and assist any individual you’ll be able to depend on.
We’re not all the time going to agree, however I do know Vice President Harris will all the time do what she believes is true for this nation. She has a honest coronary heart, and that’s why I’m honored to be right here and supporting her on this race. (Applause.)
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I imply, I — precisely. The — hear, so, in my profession as a prosecutor — you’ve heard me say this — I — I by no means, ever requested a sufferer or a witness, “Are you a Republican or a Democrat?” By no means. It wouldn’t have even occurred to me to ask them. I did, each time, ask, “Are you okay?”
And I — you recognize, and I really feel very strongly that — for instance, in — on the difficulty of partisanship, sure, we’re going to have disagreements, however I actively invite good concepts from wherever they arrive. That’s why I’m going to have a Republican in my Cupboard, by the way in which — (applause) — as a result of I need good concepts.
And, by the way in which, I do know it’s in our greatest curiosity as a nation, in our — the curiosity of our energy and our future as a nation. We’d like a wholesome two-party system. We’d like a wholesome two-party system. (Applause.)
We’d like to have the ability to have these good, intense debates about points which are grounded actually. (Laughter.) How about that?
MS. CHENEY: Think about.
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Let’s begin there. (Laughs.) (Applause.)
Wow. Are you able to imagine that’s an applause line? (Laughter.)
Oy. However, you recognize, it’s — (laughter) — it’s —
We’ve in our grasp in these subsequent 13 days — 13 days, we’re — or 15 days, excuse me. I — I’m simply leaping forward. (Laughter.) In these subsequent 15 days, we now have in our grasp the power to find out the course of our nation.
You already know, each election, we’ve stated, “That is the one.” That is the one. This actually is the one.
I imply, to the congresswoman’s level, the previous chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees referred to Donald Trump as being “fascist to the core.” And nobody would ever accuse the previous chairman of being partisan in any method. The individuals who know him greatest — from the previous chief of workers; Protection secretaries, two of them; nationwide safety advisor to the previous vp.
And so, we now have in — in our grasp — as a result of we nonetheless have a democracy. Because the saying goes, so long as we maintain on to it, we nonetheless have a democracy, which implies in a democracy — and right here’s the great thing about it — we every have the ability to decide about the way forward for our nation by our vote.
And my request, then, of every of you who’ve frolicked out of your busy lives to be right here — and I thanks for that — is please simply assist us get the phrase out to your neighbors and family and friends members to simply remind them of what’s at stake and this dialog.
I ask to your vote. I ask for his or her votes. And I promise to be a president for all Individuals. I promise and pledge that. (Applause.)
MS. LONGWELL: All proper, everybody. Congresswoman Cheney and Vice President Kamala Harris. Thanks a lot.
Sure, let’s give them one other spherical of applause. That was great. (Applause.)
Thanks a lot.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thanks. Thanks.
MS. LONGWELL: Thanks. (Applause.)