During the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance took a page from running mate Donald Trump’s book and verbally flogged Chicago.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, about 40 miles south of where Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were holding a campaign rally, he called Chicago the country’s murder capital and compared it to a “third world country.”
“It's almost a joke to me that they held it in Chicago, which has become the murder capital of the United States of America thanks to very failed Democrat leadership,” Vance said. He then shared a “little theory” that Democrats held the Democratic National Convention here so that Walz could then accurately claim to have served in a combat zone.
