Wednesday night's TPUSA event with Vice President JD Vance and Erika Kirk at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) was a special one, and the entire Q&A portion is worth the viewing. We get an opportunity to witness Vance's innate ability to command the stage with his natural charm and depth of knowledge. Vance was engaging, masterful, and patient in responding, off-the-cuff, mind you, to the unvetted questions presented to him. Can you imagine former VP Kamala Harris even attempting this? We know she would not and could not.
Vance's responses to every question exhibited his insight, intellectual rigor, and sharp wit. The subtle and distinctive way he dealt with each questioner is also a master class in and of itself. While the majority of these young people were very respectful and not at all hostile (this is the South, after all), one young woman, who appeared to be of Arabic descent, decided to push that envelope.
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Here is how she led with a question on immigration:
When did you guys decide that number? Why did you sell us a dream? You made us spent our youth, our wealth in this country and gave us a dream. You don't owe us anything. We have worked hard for it. Then how can you, as a vice president, stand there and say that we have too many of them now? So, by paying the money that you guys asked us, you gave us a path. And now, how can you stop it and tell us we don't belong here anymore?
This woman comes off as self-righteous, entitled, and huffy. When Vance attempted to answer, she interrupted him and heaped additional questions on what should have been just that one. VP Vance showed incredible grace without ever pushing back at her or calling her out on her attitude.
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An immigrant asks why she was sold the American Dream, & then told she "doesn't belong here."@VP answers beautifully.
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But first jokes he'll have a hard time answering her lengthy questions.
"If I've finished all 9 of your questions in less than 15 minutes we can keep going." pic.twitter.com/e1ueP6JveA
Her interruption was quite telling. She said, "But you are pushing out policies that hurt us, and these policies are not even solving the problems. These policies are just creating chaos..."
Excuse me, but HOW is she being hurt? This young woman is able to attend a respected U.S. college, possibly on some form of scholarship or assistance, and is also able to attend this event and ask a question of the Vice President of the United States. How, exactly is she being harmed? I don't think she knew the answer to that; she was simply spitting out leftist talking points that had been spoon-fed to her by her family or a leftist professor, many of whom are as embedded in Southern colleges as in Northern ones.
This time Vance did gently push back, and even attempted to joke with his comment: "If I've finished all nine of your questions in less than 15 minutes, we can keep going." The young girl remained humorless and tight-lipped, arms folded. Apparently, she had an agenda, and Vance was not playing into it in the way that she had hoped.
Vance remained gracious, but equally important, his final response to this question was on point, apt, and pushed past this young woman's sense of entitlement to get to the heart of the matter.
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Vance responds to somebody who accused him of pushing policies that hurt immigrants:
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"Just because 1 person or 10 people or 100 people came in legally and contributed to the United States of America, does that mean we are committed to let in a million, or 10 million, or 100… pic.twitter.com/qMQFVvaQ6j
Just because one person or 10 people or 100 people came in legally and contributed to the United States of America, does that mean we are committed to let in a million, or 10 million, or 100 million... My job is not to look out for the interests of the whole world. It's to look out for the people of the United States.
I can believe that the United States should lower its levels of immigration in the future, while also respecting that there are people who have come here through lawful immigration pathways that have contributed to the country. But just because one person, or 10 people or 100 people came in legally and contributed to the United States of America, does that mean that we're thereby committed to let in a million, or 10 million or 100 million people in the future? No, that's not right. We cannot have... I'll go to finish. We cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50 or 60 years ago binds the country inevitably for the future. There's too many people who want to come to the United States of America, and my job as Vice President is not to look out for the interests of the whole world, it's to look out for the people of the United States.
Mic drop.
The American Dream is supposed to be secured for the American people first, and then should be opened to non-citizens. The President of the United States has the discretionary powers to control who, and how many, are allowed to come in to participate in that American Dream. If I had responded to this question, I would have encouraged this young woman to do some research on how different presidential administrations handled immigration. I have friends who went through the immigration process, with its years of processing, paperwork, and thousands of dollars required. While it's not a cakewalk, it is also NOT a guarantee. No promises are made until you sign those naturalization papers in front of an immigration judge and swear the oath of citizenship.
One British friend who had become naturalized was working to get her parents over during the George HW Bush administration. HW Bush lost and Bill Clinton won. Once Clinton was inaugurated, her parents' application was put on hold with no explanation. It took another eight years before her parents could pick up the process again, and they ultimately made it to the U.S. and worked toward their citizenship.
Yes, the immigration system is horrifically broken, but no one is ripping the American Dream away. No foreigner should be allowed to rip the American Dream away from the American citizens just because they feel they are entitled to it. There are foreign-born people who love this country, and we want them to have access to the blessings of liberty; but not at the expense of leapfrogging over Americans.
Ahead of her immigration rant at Vance, this young woman at Ole Miss also asked (in part):
You are married to a woman who is not Christian. In her Wikipedia, I mean, I just looked that up, I didn't know what her faith was. She still calls herself Hindu. You are raising two kids, three kids in a inter-cultural, racial, religious household. How are you maintaining, or how are you teaching your kids not to keep your religion ahead of their mother's religion?
She went further, comparing Vance's family lineage of only a few hundred years old, and Usha Vance's lineage, which is thousands of years old. What one had to do with another is beyond me. Frankly, how she phrased the question was quite rude. This young woman made it sound as though Vance was forcing his Christianity down Usha Vance's and his children's throat.
Vance once again responded gently, with greater self-control than I would have been able to muster. What a witness of his Christian faith that he leaned into those fruits of the Spirit.
Vance's response reflected a man who is the spiritual leader of his household and a partner with his spouse in raising their children. There are male commenters on the video of this post, supposedly Christian, who criticize the fact that Vance had choosen to marry a woman who did not share his faith. Had they read Vance's book or listened to any of his many interviews, they would have known that Vance and Usha both started out leaning toward agnosticism, and it was he who moved toward faith in Jesus Christ. Another witness to his grounded faith: Vance is following what the Apostle Paul instructs in 1 Corinthians 7:12-14 concerning marriage between believers and unbelievers:
To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. 13And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband.
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Vance on wife not being Christian 👀
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“I do wish that because I believe in the Christian gospel & I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way. If she does not, then god says everybody has free will and so that does not cause a problem for me.”
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Vance not only embodied the heart of debate and dialogue that Charlie Kirk fostered, but he gave a window into his life, character, and why he excels not just as the Vice President of the United States, but as a man of substance and integrity. It is a pleasure to watch.
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