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00:01:29.000I want to thank High Point University for helping put this together.
00:01:32.000We wanted to have an intimate town hall with you guys, the next generation.
00:01:36.000You know, there's a lot of talk about different groups that are going to determine and decide this election.
00:01:41.000Younger voters make up, Gen Z makes up one out of six of all voters this election.
00:01:46.000And you guys are inheriting a country that has a lot of problems.
00:01:49.000In fact, you guys are the first generation since George Washington to have it worse off than your parents.
00:01:55.000There's a lot of problems happening with Gen Z, most depressed generation, Most anxious generation, most suicidal generation, least likely to own homes, least likely to have families.
00:02:05.000And obviously you know where my loyalty lies, which is that President Trump will make this country great again, with the help of J.D. Vance, of course.
00:02:13.000And you guys get an amazing opportunity to hear from him personally, ask questions from him.
00:02:29.000And J.D. Vance lives the American dream because he wants you guys to be able to live the American dream.
00:02:34.000And the American dream is not something that we should send off to far distant lands.
00:02:39.000The American dream is something that we need to make sure is guaranteed to every person that works hard and plays by the rules and loves this country.
00:02:47.000And we are just a couple days out from this critical election, guys.
00:02:49.000And this state will help determine the future of our country.
00:02:52.000And so those of you that haven't voted, you've got to get your friends out to vote.
00:02:55.000And we're just going to have a lot of fun today.
00:02:57.000Hearing from a thoughtful and sincerely good person.
00:03:00.000So join me in welcoming the next Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, everybody.
00:04:00.000You're in three states a day meeting with voters.
00:04:03.000And here in North Carolina, I believe it's 120-plus universities, colleges, or community colleges.
00:04:11.000It's populated with Gen Z. And voters that care about their own future, owning homes and so on and so forth.
00:04:19.000What are you hearing from voters and what is your opening message to younger voters that are not sure how to think about this election?
00:04:26.000Yeah, well, first of all, I think younger voters in some ways have the most to lose or the most to gain from getting this election either right or wrong.
00:04:34.000Because, you know, one of the things that worries me when I hear Kamala Harris speak is I hear a person Who doesn't have strong or sincere views about what she actually wants to do.
00:04:45.000Set to the side any policy disagreement you might have with Kamala Harris, and I have a lot.
00:04:50.000And set to the side, by the way, policy disagreements you might have with a person like Barack Obama, and I have a lot there.
00:04:55.000What I would say for Barack Obama, but I would not say for Kamala Harris, is that he actually has beliefs and thoughts in his head for how he wants to govern the United States of America.
00:05:05.000And I hate to say that, I don't think you can say this about Kamala Harris.
00:05:08.000Now the problem there is that that person becomes an empty vessel for whatever the prevailing ideas that are governing in Washington, D.C. are.
00:05:17.000And what are the prevailing ideas that are governing in Washington, D.C. that affect young people disproportionately?
00:05:22.000Number one, that we should use our young people as cannon fodder for foreign military misadventures That are frankly going to get a lot of your peers killed unless we have a smarter foreign policy.
00:05:36.000I think you guys have a lot to lose because we are on the precipice of many broad regional wars, potentially even a world war.
00:05:44.000Do you want a person like Kamala Harris negotiating in private rooms with people like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping?
00:05:52.000Or do you want a guy like Donald Trump actually sticking up for the United States of America?
00:05:56.000I think the answer to that question is obvious.
00:05:58.000The second prevailing idea in Washington, D.C. is that we should let in millions upon millions of illegal immigrants who compete against young Americans for important jobs, who undercut the wages of American workers.
00:06:12.000And it's American workers of every color, every background.
00:06:15.000But we have to recognize that when you let in millions upon millions of illegal aliens, It really severely undercuts the wages of people, especially people who are entering the workforce, which is true of every person in this room.
00:06:29.000And the final thing I'll say, Charlie, is if you look at the biggest drivers of why are homes unaffordable in the United States of America right now?
00:06:37.000Why have housing prices gone up by 45% in the state of North Carolina, but by similar levels in all of the major battleground states or even higher levels?
00:06:47.000The answer is that, one, we're not building enough homes, right?
00:06:51.000And if you look at Donald Trump's regulatory policies versus Kamala Harris's regulatory policies, yes, if Donald Trump is president, we will build far more homes than we would if Kamala Harris is the president.
00:07:02.000But it's important to recognize that no matter how many homes you build, if you allow an unlimited wave of illegal immigrants to come into the United States of America, those people Are going to end up owning the houses or living in the houses that ought by right go to American citizens.
00:07:21.000And this is something you see whether you look at it at a locality by locality level.
00:07:25.000If you look at it at a national level, when you let in way too many illegal immigrants, the price of housing shoots through the roof.
00:07:32.000So the question young people have to ask is, do I want to have a job where I earn a good day's wage for a good day's work?
00:07:40.000Because if so, you've got to vote for Donald Trump.
00:07:42.000Do I want to raise a family in an environment or just build a life in an environment where I can afford to buy a home?
00:07:50.000Because if you'd like to do that, the only person is Donald J. Trump.
00:07:55.000Kamala Harris's policies are going to produce more war, more poverty, more Higher housing prices and lower wages for American workers.
00:08:04.000You guys have more to lose than anybody because if we let the American dream, as Charlie said in his introduction, if we let the American dream disappear in the United States of America, the consequences are going to fall hardest on the people in this room.
00:08:25.000And it needs to be a rebirth of optimism that our best days can be ahead.
00:08:30.000President Donald Trump has laid out an amazing agenda, starting with, of course, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, drill, baby, drill, no tax on Social Security, largest middle class tax cut, and increasing the pool of homes.
00:08:43.000Talk more about how we just need to reinvigorate the psyche of a younger generation that has just sometimes checked out, has become largely cynical about their future.
00:08:53.000Well, I think the way to reinvigorate America is to do it substantively and to do it with real ideas that are going to improve the lives of our citizens, not with these ridiculous slogans.
00:09:03.000I mean, you know, you asked Kamala Harris a question.
00:09:06.000Even in a softball interview, and I'll say this for Kamala Harris, I think that every time she answers one of these questions, we pick up about 50,000 or 100,000 votes because, you know, they'll say, what is your specific plan to lower the price of groceries?
00:09:21.000What's your specific plan to make the American dream of home ownership more affordable?
00:09:25.000And she'll say, well, I grew up in a middle class family.
00:09:27.000Okay, I grew up in a working class family.
00:09:30.000And, you know, that's not a solution to the problems that the country is facing.
00:09:35.000It's important to talk about your background so people know who you are, but it's also important to talk about the details.
00:09:40.000And what I think that President Trump is fundamentally proposing is he's trying to make it easier to invest and build things in the United States of America, whether that's a home, a family, a business.
00:09:54.000He's trying to make it harder to offshore and ship the American dream to other countries.
00:09:59.000That's fundamentally, if you look at his tax policy, his tax policy, and again, he can talk about the details better than anybody, but you look at his tax policy, it's about if you work, if you build a life, if you're creating a company or working in a business in the United States of America, we are going to make it easier for you to be rewarded for your hard work.
00:10:17.000If you're shipping jobs overseas, we're going to make it harder for you to do that, and we're going to penalize you for doing that.
00:10:22.000If you're trying to build a home, if you're trying to unleash American energy, we're going to make those things easier for you.
00:10:28.000I mean, there are very, very specific things that you can do, I think, to invigorate the American dream and to invigorate the American population.
00:10:36.000But if you don't have a real plan for how to get this country back on track, people know when they're being lied to.
00:10:42.000And I think that a lot of people who listen to Kamala Harris, even people who might agree with her ideologically, who might consider themselves more left of center, If you listen to Kamala Harris, pay attention to what she says.
00:10:54.000She has no plan to make your life better.
00:10:57.000That's why she's spending all this time talking about Donald Trump and calling her fellow Americans Nazis and garbage.
00:11:04.000Kamala Harris is way more interested in Donald Trump's past than she is your future.
00:11:10.000And we need a president who knows that the way to get the country back on track is to govern it effectively, to give people a specific sense of what that vision looks like, and then to implement that vision and let Americans do what they do best, which is build a good life for themselves.
00:11:29.000And that's what's so different about Kamala Harris's present leadership versus the change that Donald J. Trump is offering.
00:11:36.000He's telling you what he's going to do for you.
00:11:39.000She's talking about what he did four years ago.
00:11:42.000So last question here before we get to some questions.
00:11:44.000I want to talk about this unique moment of who is coalescing behind President Trump and also who is lining up behind Kamala Harris.
00:11:53.000First on Kamala Harris, you see these warmongers that have sent young men and women like this in this room to unnecessary no-win wars, such as Liz Cheney, John Bolton, Leon Panetta.
00:12:04.000But on President Trump's side, You're part of this kind of Avengers team.
00:12:26.000Because for people that might be more center-left, I think it's important to realize two people that ran for the presidency as Democrats are now enthusiastically behind Donald Trump.
00:12:35.000Yeah, so if you guys go back to 2003, I was a senior in high school in 2003.
00:12:44.000I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 2003.
00:12:47.000And most of you, my assumption is most of you were either not even alive then or were very, very young.
00:12:53.000And I wish that I could go back in time and tell myself from the perspective of 2003 that if Dick Cheney is in control, if a person with the last name of Cheney It's in control of American foreign policy.
00:13:07.000It is a damn shame and a lot of bad things are going to happen because of it.
00:13:11.000Because you guys are now, even though you weren't alive then, I can tell you my old 18-year-old self is coming forward into the future and telling you guys, when a Cheney is telling you how you should live your lives and how you should vote, you should run in the other direction.
00:13:28.000And that is what you have an opportunity to do.
00:13:32.000That a Cheney in charge of American foreign policy would lead to a lot of innocent Americans and also other people losing their lives?
00:13:39.000I didn't know that it would lead to disastrous foreign policy.
00:13:42.000You guys now know that, so vote like you know it, and don't reward the party of Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney and Kamala Harris.
00:13:51.000Reward the party of Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and Donald J. Trump, because they're the ones who are going to accomplish peace and prosperity for all of you in this room, but for all of your peers, too.
00:14:03.000I mean, if you think about this, Tulsi Gabbard probably ended Kamala Harris's presidential run in 2020.
00:14:09.000Remember, Kamala didn't make it to the primary in 2020 because Tulsi Gabbard observed rightly that Kamala Harris had built her entire career off of throwing a lot of innocent people in prison.
00:14:57.000And I think it goes back to basic common sense, okay?
00:15:01.000We are now the party of common sense, of not letting in unlimited waves of illegal immigration, of having schools that educate rather than indoctrinate children, of having a common sense foreign policy that's more built around peace and diplomacy and American strength than American weakness and war and chaos.
00:15:21.000And that is really the realignment that's happened.
00:15:23.000You don't have to agree with me on every issue.
00:15:25.000You don't have to agree with Donald J. Trump on every issue.
00:15:27.000But if you think that what's going on in the present moment in the United States of America is just a little too crazy and a little too weird, to use the Democrats' favorite word of this cycle, then you have an opportunity to throw the bums out and give the American people the change that they need.
00:15:43.000Now, here's another final observation I'll make.
00:15:46.000I mean, I'm joined today by a very dear friend.
00:15:50.000And he told me that he just took his kids out of school.
00:15:55.000Now, I imagine that most of the young people here, probably all of you, don't have children yet, but a lot of you will one day.
00:16:01.000And do you want to raise your families in a country where you can send your kids to school and have confidence they're going to get a good education?
00:16:09.000I think that should be the right of every American child and every American parent, is we give a good education to the children who grow up in the United States of America.
00:16:19.000And I'm just telling you, a friend of mine, a guy I trust very dearly, he just pulled his kids out of school because he doesn't believe that under Kamala Harris's leadership, his kids are getting the education they deserve.
00:16:30.000Again, you have an opportunity to change that Vote for Donald J. Trump in six days or before.
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00:17:47.000Senator Vance, my question for you today is specifically, how will you improve the economy in a way that it benefits 20-year-olds, young 20-year-olds, such as myself?
00:17:57.000Julia, thanks so much for the question.
00:17:59.000And I want to start out by saying I grew up in a working-class family.
00:18:16.000So right now, the American tax code is designed in a way that rewards investment overseas and in some ways penalizes investment in the United States.
00:18:27.000That means fewer factories, fewer businesses, fewer non-factory businesses, whether it's manufacturing or non-manufacturing, are being built in the United States of America.
00:18:38.000That means we have less technological innovation in the United States of America, and that means our workers aren't earning the higher wages that we want in the United States of America.
00:18:46.000If you go back to the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, workers were getting consistent pay increases year over year.
00:18:53.000From about 1980 on, workers didn't get really a solid pay increase for 40 years.
00:19:01.000The one exception, the four-year exception, was when Donald J. Trump was president from 2017 to 2020.
00:19:08.000Because he made it easier to build things in the United States of America, and he frankly made it harder to build things overseas.
00:19:15.000That's the number one thing, is to change the tax code.
00:19:21.000The Kamala Harris campaign says that it's a tax.
00:19:24.000Well, here's what a tariff actually does.
00:19:27.000Say, for example, that you're an American business and you're deciding whether to build a company or expand a company In China or in the United States of America.
00:19:37.000Now what China has going for it is that you can pay literal slave laborers at $3 a day, where in America, and I think this is a good thing, you've got to pay people a middle class wage.
00:19:48.000Because I want all of you to earn good wages for a good day's work.
00:19:53.000But if you're going to encourage investment in the United States of America, you've got to penalize the companies who choose to make their things in China.
00:20:03.000And the only way to penalize them is what's called a tariff.
00:20:06.000If they try to bring something that was manufactured by those Chinese slave laborers back into our country, we're going to slap a big fat tariff and say, you've got to pay a penalty to get that stuff back into our country.
00:20:17.000That's how we protect the middle class jobs of our citizens.
00:20:20.000And that's how we make it easier to invest in the United States of America.
00:20:25.000Charlie already said this, but I'm going to repeat it because it's very important.
00:20:28.000Think about the biggest driver of cost increases.
00:20:31.000I don't want you just to earn a good wage.
00:20:33.000I also want you to be able to afford to buy things with the money, with the hard-earned dollars that you earn.
00:20:39.000Okay, so why are costs getting so high?
00:20:43.000It's complicated, but the The biggest single driver is energy.
00:20:48.000If a truck driver is paying 45% more for diesel, then the groceries that truck driver delivers to the grocery store are going to become way more expensive.
00:20:57.000When we talk about housing, if the guy who's delivering the lumber to the job site is paying 40% more for gasoline, then all of us are going to be paying more for the houses that are built with those delivered materials.
00:21:19.000You build pipelines so that we can get energy from one place to another very easily.
00:21:24.000You make it easier to unleash our great energy economy.
00:21:27.000And you're going to create a lot of good jobs in the energy sector, but you're also going to make it so that, Julia, you and your friends pay less when you go to the grocery store or when you go and buy clothes or when you go and buy a house.
00:21:38.000Everything becomes cheaper if we unleash the American energy economy And that's why it's a critical piece of Donald Trump's economic plan.
00:21:54.000We're really grateful that you decided to come spend some time in High Point.
00:21:58.000As far as my question goes, we know that many voters in our generation have expressed concerns about our financial futures amidst the current housing crisis.
00:22:08.000We've seen a lot of stricter zoning, building regulations, especially from local governments, especially from Democrats, and it's definitely been very detrimental to our housing system.
00:22:19.000What specifically do you see in policies changing that will help to ensure that we can one day own homes?
00:22:27.000Yeah, thank you for the question, Rowan.
00:22:29.000And, you know, one, just to go back to the energy costs, that's a big driver of housing costs.
00:22:33.000So lowering energy costs is going to help us lower the cost of housing.
00:22:37.000Now, the second thing is you're right, that a lot of these local regulations put in place by governments, local governments, primarily Democrats, make it harder to build housing.
00:22:45.000But there's a lot that we can do on the federal level to reduce regulations and make it easier to build houses in the first place.
00:22:53.000And frankly, we probably want to make it harder for those local governments to restrict the supply of housing.
00:22:59.000So again, all of you guys can actually afford to buy a home or at least to rent a home at a reasonable rate when you guys are at the The point when you want to do that.
00:23:08.000And then the final thing that I'll say, Rowan, is you need to pursue the kind of tax policy that allows people to invest in building in the United States of America.
00:23:19.000And again, that's something that we've really gone in the wrong direction on the last few years, is you've got to ask yourself, if you invest in the United States and you make a fair amount of money, and we want people who invest to be able to make money, are you paying a bigger tax on that than if you invest overseas?
00:23:36.000And if the answer is yes, then we're penalizing people who are building houses and other things in the United States of America.
00:23:44.000And between reducing the regulations, reducing the energy costs, and I'll go back to reducing illegal aliens who are competing with Americans for scarce homes, I think we can actually make the American dream of home ownership more available and more affordable again.
00:23:59.000The way that I think about this is The country is in so many ways in such a good spot.
00:24:27.000That's what we all get an opportunity to do.
00:24:31.000Really quick, I just want to make sure that Kamala's awful plan is highlighted.
00:24:38.000She wants to give $25,000 per person, which sounds good for a home.
00:24:41.000What will that do to housing prices almost immediately?
00:24:44.000I think that's important to compare and contrast.
00:24:46.000Yeah, so if you don't increase the supply of houses, and then you continue to allow illegal aliens to compete against American citizens for those houses, What you will necessarily do is you give $25,000, you're going to increase the cost of housing by $25,000.
00:25:01.000So again, this is fundamentally the difference between the Kamala Harris approach and the Donald Trump approach.
00:25:07.000Donald Trump is trying to make it easier to build and invest and to create things in our country.
00:25:12.000Kamala Harris is trying to pass out free money to cover over the fact that her own policies are why housing is so expensive.
00:25:20.000And Charlie, it's not just, if you look at the details of her plan, She's not just saying she's going to give $25,000 to American citizens.
00:25:27.000She's also saying she's going to give $25,000 a lot of times to people who aren't even in the country legally to begin with.
00:25:35.000So you're probably going to, you know, even if her plan is implemented, which I'm skeptical, but even if it's implemented, your housing prices are going to go up by $35,000, $40,000, $50,000, and then you get a $25,000 check in the mail.
00:25:48.000Have you won or lost in that equation?
00:25:51.000Meanwhile if Donald J. Trump's plan gets implemented You're going to be paying less for housing to the tune of $25,000, $45,000, $50,000.
00:26:00.000That's how you win, and that's how you make American housing more affordable.
00:26:03.000Yeah, and she won't even send a $25,000 check.
00:26:05.000It's like a tax incentive, which every realtor would just say, every house is more expensive.
00:26:18.000I'm starting to look at my options on where to move and work after college.
00:26:22.000My question is, how will you and President Trump fix the amount of illegal immigrants in this country, specifically relating to the safety of young women like myself thinking about moving to New York City after school?
00:26:35.000Well, it's a very good question, Paige.
00:26:37.000First of all, don't move to New York City until after the election.
00:26:41.000That's, you know, vote in North Carolina and then you can move somewhere else afterwards.
00:26:45.000We really need your vote here in North Carolina.
00:26:48.000I mean, honestly, Paige, I wish I could give you a different answer.
00:26:51.000But I'd be very worried about moving to some of these, you know, one-party states and one-party cities, because if you look at the levels of violent crime, especially assaults, muggings, things like that, they're moving in the wrong direction.
00:27:05.000And they're moving in the wrong direction in large part because we have let in massive amounts of illegal immigration into our country.
00:27:11.000And most of those people, thank God, aren't criminals, but a lot of them are, which is why we see increased levels of criminal behavior.
00:27:18.000You know, I was asked by a news reporter, it's one of the most shocking questions I've ever been asked, where she said, aren't you guys overstating the problem of gang activity among illegal aliens because only a handful of apartment complexes have been taken over by criminal gangs?
00:27:33.000And my response was, are you hearing yourself?
00:27:36.000Only a handful of apartment complexes.
00:27:38.000Well, Paige, I don't want you to move into a complex that's been taken over by a criminal gang, and then some journalist is going to say, well, Paige, it's only a handful of apartment complexes, right?
00:27:47.000You've got to actually be able to enforce our borders.
00:27:51.000And specifically, there are three big things that Kamala Harris did that we're going to undo and accelerate so that we can actually get our border under control.
00:28:00.000The first and most important is Kamala Harris really cut down on deportations.
00:28:05.000If you know you can come into the country without ever being deported, you're going to keep on coming into the country illegally.
00:28:09.000So we have to reimplement deportations in the United States of America.
00:28:13.000The second is, and I've been to the border more times than our illustrious borders are, Kamala Harris.
00:28:19.000If you go to certain parts of the border, you will see slabs of border wall laying in the dirt, rusting, because she stopped construction of the border wall.
00:28:30.000And the Border Patrol will tell you that where the border wall was constructed, you saw a massive decrease in the amount of illegal immigration.
00:28:36.000Let's just finish that border wall and cut down even more on illegal immigration.
00:28:41.000And then the third thing, Paige, And this gets a little bit into the details of immigration policy, but it really matters, is when a person comes to the United States and says that they're claiming asylum, what do you do with that person?
00:28:53.000Donald Trump's answer was they have to stay in Mexico while that claim is adjudicated.
00:28:58.000Kamala Harris's answer is we're going to let this person roam freely in the United States of America for 10, 15 years.
00:29:25.000And thank you for fitting us within your busy schedule.
00:29:28.000My name is Brett, and my question for you is many of my generation are concerned about a possible war with China.
00:29:33.000and more importantly with that for us, a possible draft.
00:29:37.000And so with rising tensions within the South China Sea, border clashes between India and China, what is the Trump-Vance administration's plan to de-escalate from this rising crisis?
00:29:48.000And look, this is the thing that I worry the most about for this generation is that if we don't get foreign policy right, a lot of people in your generation are going to pick up the pieces and fix the mistakes of the current generation of American leadership.
00:30:05.000And I don't want you to have to do that.
00:30:10.000I want you to be able to live your dreams, not have to go and fight a war because Kamala Harris screwed up again, as she's been doing for the last three and a half years.
00:30:18.000And it's going to get a lot worse if we promote her to President of the United States.
00:30:22.000And, you know, our specific plan to de-escalate in the South China Sea is, you know, it's, it's, somebody said it, some smart strategist said the best way to stop a war It's to prevent a war from starting in the first place.
00:30:33.000And this is what, you know, if you go back to Donald Trump's foreign policy, consider Europe.
00:30:38.000Russia invaded a sovereign nation when Barack Obama was president.
00:30:44.000Russia invaded a sovereign nation when George W. Bush was president.
00:30:47.000Russia invaded a sovereign nation during the Biden-Harris administration.
00:30:51.000The one time in the last two decades that Russia didn't invade a sovereign nation We're good to go.
00:31:18.000Sometimes even with very bad people, because you can't just talk to the good people when you're engaging in diplomacy.
00:31:26.000That's what real leadership looks like.
00:31:28.000Again, I was with Tulsi Gabbard yesterday, and she told me, and I didn't realize this, that there was a major threat from North Korea of an ICBM, an intercontinental ballistic missile, hitting Hawaii early in 2017.
00:31:41.000Well, that threat came from North Korea, and what did Donald Trump do Donald Trump went and talked to the leader of North Korea, even though all of the media said that he shouldn't.
00:31:53.000And guess how many threats against Hawaii were made after Donald Trump had that sit-down meeting?
00:32:05.000The solution here to prevent war is to make it as costly as possible for the Chinese to invade Taiwan in the first place.
00:32:13.000Everyone will tell you, That if the Chinese establish territory in Taiwan, if they establish a beachhead in Taiwan, it becomes very hard and a lot of people get killed.
00:32:44.000And unfortunately, we're just not doing that.
00:32:46.000Now, this is one of the more difficult questions that exists in American foreign policy is because Kamala Harris has been sending so many resources to Ukraine.
00:32:57.000We actually don't have enough to send to Taiwan.
00:33:01.000So by defending by approaching the Russia Ukraine situation in the way that we have, we've actually made it more likely that that the Chinese will invade Taiwan.
00:33:11.000And we need to pursue a foreign policy that makes it less likely.
00:33:15.000And that's what's going to change when Donald Trump is president.
00:33:21.000Bumbling towards World War III that might include a draft of some people in this room.
00:33:25.000I don't think that's an exaggeration at all.
00:33:27.000I think that we are sleepwalking ourselves into World War III. And if you go back to all of the really terrible world conflicts, they almost always come from incompetent leadership rather than evil leadership, right?
00:33:41.000It's people who just aren't smart and aren't thinking about If I do this thing, you can't just think about the immediate consequence.
00:33:50.000You've got to ask yourself, what is the second order and the third order consequence?
00:33:53.000If I send a lot of javelins and a lot of artillery shells to one country, does that mean that another country is not getting the resources necessary to prevent itself?
00:34:02.000If I spend a lot of money over here, Do the Chinese perceive that we're weaker than we should be because we haven't spent that money on our own defense?
00:34:11.000These are the things that Donald J. Trump thinks about, and unfortunately these are not the things that Kamala Harris thinks about.
00:34:17.000So do I think that we're at the greatest risk of a third world war in my lifetime, Charlie?
00:34:32.000I do not want you guys to have to put on a uniform, not because you're patriotic and volunteer, but because your country forces you to because Kamala Harris has blundered us into another significant conflict.
00:34:46.000But the opportunity to stop that and to take the country in a new direction is this election.
00:34:54.000For many reasons, but maybe the most important reason to get out there and vote is to prevent World War III. So our team's been using this app.
00:35:03.000Again, I'm careful with these betting markets, but this is the one you guys got to look at.
00:35:07.000K-A-L-S-H-I. It's the first legal exchange where you can trade and bet on any event.
00:35:13.000For the first time in 100 years, they got approval to list markets to trade on the outcome of the upcoming election, making it legal to trade on the U.S. presidential election and see who's going to win, Trump or Kamala.
00:35:22.000They have markets on who will win each election, who will win swing states.
00:35:25.000They also have markets on inflation, interest rates, will the government shutdown, and more.
00:35:28.000What's really cool about this platform is you can trade on your opinions to make money or hedge risks that may impact you.
00:35:53.000I am Vice President here of Turning Point USA. My question for you is, as a politician, how has your faith and ethics been tested?
00:36:01.000And as we're going into the workforce, I mean, I'm a political science major, what advice do you have for when inevitably our faith and ethics are also tested?
00:36:12.000Or as our generation knows, does the nice guy always finish last?
00:36:23.000Just because you're nice doesn't mean that you're weak.
00:36:26.000And remember that nice guys can also be tough, or nice gals can also be tough.
00:36:32.000And I'd encourage you guys to absolutely be kind and virtuous, be generous of spirit, but also always be a little tough, right?
00:36:39.000Both of those things can be true, and both of those things can be useful.
00:36:42.000Probably the first time that my faith and my ethics and my sense of my duty to the people of Ohio was tested was early on in my Senate term when there was this terrible train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
00:37:02.000But they set off a massive chemical explosion after the train derailment, which just basically...
00:37:09.000It was like a chemical bomb went off in this small town in Northeastern Ohio.
00:37:13.000And so I went and visited the town many times over the next few months.
00:37:17.000And one of the things that I kept on noticing is that the residents, and they were normally the residents who were a little poorer, who didn't have as much money, who didn't have the same influence, they would come up to me and they would say, this thing is happening or that thing is happening.
00:37:31.000In particular, they kept on telling me that even though they were being told that the creeks in the town were safe, They thought they saw evidence of chemical pollution in the creeks.
00:37:41.000And that was on one of my first visits there.
00:37:43.000So I said, okay, here's what I was being pressured to do.
00:37:46.000I was being pressured to ignore them, to basically say, oh, they're crazy people.
00:37:50.000They don't know what they're talking about.
00:37:52.000But some inner voice was saying, this is your job.
00:37:55.000Your job is to listen to people, sometimes the downtrodden that nobody else is listening to.
00:38:00.000So I said to my team, drive me to a creek.
00:38:04.000And I stuck a stick in the water, and it was like an oil sheen in a creek in East Palestine, Ohio.
00:38:10.000It was clearly not safe, and it was clearly not healthy.
00:38:14.000And I realized in that moment that if you always listen to the media, or you always listen to the people who have fancy credentials, and look, all of you are college students.
00:38:24.000When you graduate, you will get a very fancy credential.
00:38:28.000Sometimes those fancy credentials are useful.
00:38:31.000But sometimes the people who use their credentials to silence their fellow citizens are just wrong.
00:38:36.000And part of your job as a future leader is going to be to listen to the people, even if they're not always the people that the media or somebody else tells you you should listen to.
00:38:46.000And what helped me in that moment, Hayes, is I kept on thinking about the grandmother who raised me, and I'm sure that all of you have some person, some person of influence in your life who's kind of, is a core part of you forming your conscience.
00:38:59.000I kept on saying, What would my grandmother do?
00:39:02.000Because what my grandmother would not do is if some poor person from East Palestine came up to me and said, Senator, I don't think the water is safe.
00:39:09.000She would not have said, go back to your car.
00:39:12.000I'm not interested in what you have to say.
00:39:14.000She would have said, listen to people.
00:39:48.000Whether they vote for us or not, our job as leaders is to listen to the people that we serve, and that is my promise, and that's something that my faith has been very, very important in making sure happens.
00:40:11.000My question to you is, with the increased costs associated with living and the debt the U.S. is racking up, how important do you believe it is to stick to a budget, and how well do you believe President Trump will stick to that budget?
00:40:23.000It's a very good question, Trinity, and they're actually connected, right?
00:40:27.000These problems are connected because when the government spends more money than it takes in, then it has to print that money.
00:40:32.000And that printed money shows up as inflation.
00:40:35.000So the average North Carolina family is about $29,000 poorer because of Kamala Harris's inflation.
00:40:41.000Now, they didn't see that in an IRS bill, but they saw it in their groceries bill, they saw it in their rental bill, they saw it in their car payments.
00:40:48.000That inflation is a hidden tax on American citizens, and it comes partially From when the government spends more money than it takes in.
00:40:57.000So what we have to do is we have to cut spending in this country.
00:41:01.000And there are a lot of very specific things that you can do to reduce the amount of money the federal government is spending.
00:41:07.000I mean, look, there is so much stupid stuff that your government does with your tax dollars.
00:41:13.000We could get back to some very common sense fiscal principles very quickly.
00:41:17.000And you answered your question about whether Donald Trump is going to work for this.
00:41:21.000Absolutely Donald Trump is going to work for this, because we know when we're elected that one of our mandates is to lower the cost of living for our citizens, and you can't do that unless you take care of the ridiculous, out-of-control spending from the federal government.
00:41:34.000And there are a few things that you can do.
00:41:36.000So, number one, people don't realize this, but the cost of illegal aliens to the United States of America is somewhere between $150 to $500 billion per year, okay?
00:41:46.000And that's housing benefits, that's welfare benefits, that's Social Security and Medicare fraud.
00:41:52.000We can do a lot just by taking care of the immigration problem.
00:41:55.000We're also still spending a lot of money from the COVID era that we shouldn't be spending.
00:42:00.000The public health pandemic, thank God, it's over, and we should never go back to some of the draconian measures that we took then, but it's over now.
00:42:09.000We should not be spending money like a drunken sailor like we did back during the COVID era.
00:42:13.000So you do those two things, you can really, really lower the cost of living, but also get our long-term budgetary picture on a more sustainable pathway.
00:42:21.000And as Charlie knows, like so many other issues, this one affects you more than it does me, right?
00:42:27.000Because all of you are going to outlive me, hopefully.
00:42:31.000You're going to be paying off the debt.
00:42:33.000That we're incurring right now for a lot longer than any of our politicians.
00:42:36.000So when you see Kamala Harris' spending proposals, you ought to be asking yourself, is it worth the debt that I'm going to be paying off for the rest of my life?
00:43:28.000Get right to the point where the government runs out of money, and then somebody says, okay, let's just pass a bill where we spend the exact same amount that we did last year, only with a few percent increase for inflation, and then everybody votes for it, not me, but most people vote for it, and that's how we do budgeting in the government.
00:43:45.000It's like if you're a household, you get right to the point where you're about to be delinquent on your credit card and your mortgage, and then you just say, all right, we're going to take out another credit card.
00:43:53.000We don't have to worry about it for another year.
00:43:55.000But eventually, you've got to worry about it, because eventually the line of credit runs dry.
00:43:59.000What Elon Musk is talking about is very simple.
00:44:02.000It's taking people with a different perspective, a private sector perspective, and actually looking at the budget, saying, how much are we spending on this program?
00:44:12.000And doing that, asking that basic question for every line item in the federal budget.
00:44:16.000And I guarantee that when you do that, Charlie, you're going to find Hundreds of billions of dollars, maybe even trillions of dollars of savings of your money that we're spending, not because we even said we need to spend this money.
00:44:29.000You may disagree with that decision, but it's not like a politician said we need to spend this money.
00:44:33.000We're spending it because we kicked the can down the road.
00:44:36.000And what Elon Musk and what a lot of us are talking about with this Department of Government Efficiency It's actually going in and saying, all right, we're going to look at how much we're spending, we're going to compare it against how much we should be spending, and we're going to actually rationalize and make sense of the federal budget for the first time in a very long time.
00:44:56.000I'm a junior at High Point University, and my question for you is, as you know, college is more expensive than ever because of the economy, and a loan will be double or triple of what it originally is.
00:45:08.000So what can the Trump administration do to keep interest rates low, such as a cap on student loans, so as soon as they're not in years of debt?
00:45:19.000You know, one of the things that we don't talk enough about is that while the student debt in this country has, at this point, I believe, about $1.7 trillion, you know that university endowments and foundations have collected about $1.7 trillion of wealth, okay?
00:45:38.000So the very universities that sometimes, and I don't think it's true of High Point University, but it's true of a lot of our colleges, they're putting students into a lifetime of debt servitude, they're overcharging, students are overpaying, and also the colleges aren't being honest about what the students are actually getting out of their education.
00:45:57.000So I think that we need to do two things.
00:45:59.000Number one, we need real price transparency and also real transparency about what the benefits are of a college degree.
00:46:07.000When you go to college, your college should have to tell you, here's what you're going to get out of this particular degree.
00:46:13.000Here's what you're going to get out of this particular program of study.
00:46:16.000I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I went to college.
00:46:20.000You should know what you're getting yourself into when you go to college, and that means that colleges have to be more honest about it.
00:46:27.000We need to not have a lifetime of debt servitude follow around our students.
00:46:33.000And I want to contrast this because I think that's irrational and it's unfair because it's not the plumbers and the electricians who are at fault for this college debt crisis.
00:46:53.000It's very often the The university administrators themselves who are not being honest with you guys about what you're getting out of college experience.
00:47:03.000We should say that if you are accumulating a lot of college debt, that debt is not going to follow you around for the rest of your life.
00:47:13.000That's a simple policy choice that we've made.
00:47:15.000And we're going to unmake it because if you incur a lot of debt and, you know, You get into a situation where you're in a tough financial position.
00:47:26.000You should not have the colleges able to collect on your debt, sometimes even garnishing your wages, before you can actually get the paycheck that's coming to you.
00:47:37.000We've created a generation of debt servants.
00:47:53.000To kind of make the final argument here to younger voters across the country and here in North Carolina, as I mentioned, there is this unrecognized breakdown in the social contract.
00:48:03.000We do politics for many reasons, but basically we do it to make sure that your kids have a better life.
00:49:11.000You should be pissed off because you're the first generation in the history of the United States of America that is unlikely to be able to own a home, that is unlikely to be able to earn a wage on which you can raise a family, that is more likely to be indebted than you are to accumulate wealth.
00:49:28.000And the reason you should be pissed off is because it's come from a failed generation of American leadership.
00:49:34.000The people who are older than me and older than you, they have failed you.
00:49:37.000They have created an economy where you're more likely to incur debt than you are to incur wealth.
00:49:42.000They've created a college debt crisis that follows you around for your entire life.
00:49:46.000They've created an economy where you can't earn wages that support a family.
00:49:51.000They've created a housing market where it's nearly impossible for most Americans of your age to be able to buy a home.
00:49:59.000The failure that has fallen on your generation was a policy choice.
00:50:04.000And we can make a different policy choice, but only if you guys get pissed off about the position you've been put in and vote for a change in leadership.
00:50:13.000That is fundamentally what Donald Trump, his entire lifetime, if you go back to the 1980s and the 1990s, Donald Trump was predicting that if we went down this road, it would lead to a generation of American young people who were paupers in their own country.