Trump's Vice Presidential Candidate Warns Wall Street

Senator James David (JD) Vance, who has agreed to run as the Republican Party’s vice presidential candidate for the US presidential election, said he will “not serve Wall Street.” Senator James David (JD) Vance, who has agreed to run as the Republican Party’s vice presidential candidate for the US presidential election, said former President and presidential candidate Donald Trump’s economic agenda will “not serve Wall Street.” Speaking at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Vance hit on themes central to Trump’s bid to return to the White House, depicting an America where rural and poor communities have been abandoned by Washington and Wall Street. Vance criticized the “Wall Street barons” who “crashed the economy” by referencing the 2008 financial crisis. Vance said it had started a spiral of job loss that has been exacerbated by Democrats who have “flooded this country with millions of illegal immigrants.” Vance, 39, who was nominated by Trump two days ago, is widely unknown to the electorate, according to polls. But Vance singles out the Republican Party as one indicator of a populist shift under Trump. “For decades, the gap between the few who have power and comfort in Washington and the rest of us has only widened,” he said. “From Iraq to Afghanistan, from the Financial Crisis to the Great Recession, from open borders to stagnant wages, those who have governed this country have failed.”