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Vance says that Harris has “fake hope”. He urges people to vote and bring people who can’t make it in person on their own to the polls. There is a short cheer as he leaves the stage. People wave signs for a moment, then check their phones, chat amongst each other, and start to leave.
It is a very different energy from the Harris and Walz campaign events.
Here is what building materials manufacturer Amerilux International, where Vance spoke, looked less than a minute after he finished:
Vance is asked by the New York Times about Arlington national cemetery.
Officials at Arlington national cemetery have filed a report over the behavior of members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff who reportedly shoved and verbally abused an employee during a “crass” photo opportunity for the Republican presidential candidate.
Following the wreath-laying, photographs from his visit showed Trump grinning and flashing a thumbs-up sign as he stood at the graves of several of the fallen military members, imagery that drew swift rebuke.
The journalist at the Vance event in Wisconsin points out that the Trump campaign said it had permission to film, but that there is a federal ban on doing so at cemeteries like Arlington. The journalist asks whether Vance thinks presidents should have to obey laws.
Vance says the media acts like Trump wanted to “film an ad at a gravesite”.
Vance essentially says that the people whose loved ones are buried there wanted Trump to film there.
In a statement, Arlington acknowledged one of its representatives became involved in the altercation with two Trump staffers, telling them that only cemetery representatives were allowed to take video and photographs in Section 60, an area where recent US casualties mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan are buried.
“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign,” the statement said, adding that “a report was filed” over the incident.
“Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants,” the statement said.
