“When I got to the Capitol, I was a little arrogant and expected all the reporters to swarm me and ask me all the questions you can imagine,” he said. “But they weren't interested at all, because there's nothing the media loves more than to cover the moment of death.”
Vance then shifted the topic to mock the idea of Harris replacing Biden as the Democratic nominee.
“Obviously, they have to be careful what they wish for,” he said. “The prize at the end of the rainbow is Kamala Harris. It's a real dilemma.”
Vance was delivering the closing speech of the three-day conference, a forum for right-wing intellectuals, influential figures and elected officials to speak out about the kinds of hardline immigration policies they would like to see attempted in a second Trump administration, as well as lay out culture war strategies and reimagined economic policy.
“This is truly a place of intellectual leadership in the American conservative movement,” Vance said.
He said immigration has “left our communities poorer, less safe, less prosperous and less progressive.”
“I remember a Twitter debate about a year ago about whether immigrants drove up home prices,” he said. “Of course, the argument was that while immigrants may fill some of the housing demand, they build all the housing. That's not true, by the way. You'll still see native-born citizens building homes in Pennsylvania and Ohio.”
