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JD Vance, Ohio Figures Give Rousing Middletown Speech on Manufacturing Investments

Vice President JD Vance spoke at a factory in Middletown, Ohio on Friday, his first appearance in his hometown since being elected to the nation’s second-highest office. In addition to sharing sentiments about his papaw working at that same factory, the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works steel plant, Vance spoke on what the Trump administration is doing for manufacturing.

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The announcement of $1 billion investment in Middletown Works from Cleveland Cliffs, thanks to a $500 million grant from the Trump administration, centered the day’s remarks. “Now, this is only possible because of my friend Chris Wright and the president’s energy dominance agenda,” Vance said about the secretary of energy.

Vance described factory workers being able to provide for their families as “the American Dream” when speaking of his papaw.

.@VP in Middletown: "Papaw was a welder in this place for 40 years — and today, his grandson stands here as the Vice President of these United States. It's an amazing thing." 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Ta2RJHd9Uh— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 21, 2026

.@VP in Middletown: "Papaw was a welder in this place for 40 years — and today, his grandson stands here as the Vice President of these United States. It's an amazing thing." 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Ta2RJHd9Uh

“My papaw hated the politicians who ignored this place. He hated the people who saw this as the place of the past,” Vance said. “He hated the people who forgot about this town when they should have been fighting for this town.”

Vance recalled how, when he was growing up, people shared their fathers had lost their factory jobs because those factories were going overseas.

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“Now, economists have measured the ways in which the opioid crisis exploded in the very locations where jobs were shipped overseas,” Vance shared, as he brought up open borders, which “brought the fentanyl trade,” and how “it left us with millions of orphan children being raised by grieved grandparents,” including his own.

.@VP: "The blood of these men and women — these so-called 'deaths of despair,' I'm sure you've heard that phrase, but it's........

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