Mike Pence in 2020 Conventions
On Crime:
Riots aren't peaceful protest; wrecking statues isn't speech
President Donald Trump and I will always support the right of Americans to peaceful protest, but rioting and looting is not peaceful protest, tearing down statues is not free speech. Those who do so will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Let me be clear: the violence must stop -- whether in Minneapolis, Portland, or Kenosha. Too many heroes have died defending our freedoms to see Americans strike each other down. We will have law and order on the streets of America.
Source: Speech at 2020 Republican National Convention
Aug 26, 2020
On Health Care:
A nation of miracles: coronavirus vaccine by end of year
As we speak we're developing a growing number of treatments, including convalescent plasma that are saving lives all across the country. Last week, Joe Biden said "no miracle is coming." What Joe doesn't seem to understand is that America is a nation
of miracles and we're on track to have the world's first safe, effective coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year. After all the sacrifice in this year like no other -- all the hardship-- we are finding our way forward again.
Source: Speech at 2020 Republican National Convention
Aug 26, 2020
On Homeland Security:
Fact Check: Takes credit for Veterans Choice passed in 2014
Pence said: "After years of scandal that robbed our veterans of the care that you earned in the uniform of the United States, President Trump kept his word again. We reformed the VA, and Veterans Choice is now available for every veteran in America."
The Veterans Choice program was a bipartisan initiative enacted by Obama in 2014. The Trump administration "reformed the VA" by signing the VA MISSION Act of 2018, which boosted funding for the choice program and expanded the eligibility criteria.
Source: NBC News Fact-Check on 2020 Republican Convention speech
Aug 26, 2020
On Principles & Values:
The choice is whether America remains America
It's not so much whether America will be more conservative or more liberal, more Republican or more Democrat. The choice in this election is whether America remains America. It's whether we will leave to our children and our grandchildren
a country grounded in our highest ideals of freedom, free markets, and the unalienable right to life and liberty--or whether we will leave to our children and grandchildren a country that is fundamentally transformed into something else.
Source: Speech at 2020 Republican National Convention
Aug 26, 2020
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