Editor’s Note: These are the lightly edited remarks by Vice President JD Vance made Feb. 28 at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
I will say that even though I, in my private-sector days, was a technology investor in Silicon Valley, I haven’t quite figured out how to work my government computer yet. So, 30 days in, I’m going to have to wing this a little bit because I thought about what I was going to say on the morning over here, and that, of course, makes all the communication staff that are sitting backstage extremely nervous because they have no idea what I’m going to say.
And before I went on, I talked to Luke, who’s one of my main communications guys, and I said, “Luke, this is all off the record, right? No one’s going to say or know what I said today, so I can just say whatever I…