Vice President JD Vance praised American manufacturers on Friday, arguing that “making things, building things,” and “working with our hands is America’s heritage.”
The vice president spoke at Vantage Plastics, a manufacturer in Standish, Michigan, where he joked to those gathered that he was happy to be out of the Washington, D.C. bubble and referenced his days growing up in Middletown, Ohio.
“Don’t hold it against me, I’m from that state, [located] just one state south,” he joked. “We know in the industrial Midwest that companies like Vantage make Great Lakes states the powerhouse of American industry and that makes it the powerhouse of world industry.”
“America’s success depends on the success of companies like Vantage Plastics,” he explained. “I don’t mean that in some abstract poetic-sounding sense, but literally, if we do not protect our nation’s…
