There was a special focus by GOP vice presidential nominee, Senator JD Vance (R-OH) at a campaign event in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Saturday; since it was held at a manufacturing company that supplies the U.S. military. He brought up not only the shoddy way the Biden-Harris administration's Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has treated vets in the wake of the porous Southern border crisis, but that the botched U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan remains a shameful and telling legacy of the sitting vice president's ongoing negligence.

Vance spoke to supporters "at JWF Industries, which supplies "Department of Defense prime contractors with reliable, on-time fabrications and sub-assemblies,' according to its site".

He made a connection between the strength of the American industrial workforce and how our nation aided the Allied powers to win World War II:

.@JDVance: "Why did we win the Second World War? Well, of course, we had the bravest people and the best troops, but we had the world's industrial might. No one could compete with America's manufacturing sector. That's what we need to get back or we're gonna lose the next major… pic.twitter.com/20UCArZBaZ

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Vance also addressed the VA seeming to work harder at housing and helping illegal aliens than our brave veterans, some of whom are left to their own devices, and homeless, on America's streets:

JD VANCE: "THANKS TO KAMALA HARRIS, WE HAVE VETERANS SLEEPING ON PARK BENCHES AND UNDER BRIDGES!"🔥🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/2BRqcl2xxt

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He also spoke about the housing initiative former President Donald Trump introduced recently, which would help more Americans gain the American Dream of home ownership, instead of the federal government giving more handouts to sway Democrat voters.

Read more: Trump Promises Policies to Help Families Keep More Cash in Their Pockets, Buy a Home in Tucson Speech

When speaking about Afghanistan, Vance reminded everyone that despite the fact that Americans were killed in the debacle, no one in the senior leadership of the DoD has yet been held accountable:

.@JDVance: I had to fact check this because I couldn't believe it, but how many people in the Department of Defense got fired after the Afghanistan withdrawal? Zero -- To people who just want their government to work properly, you can't do that unless you fire the people who… pic.twitter.com/0Q0HA6O1eC

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The way he went about it was akin to someone taking a tire iron to a set of dilapidated whitewalls on the side of the road. He said: 

Go back to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. You know, it's so sad because these are young people in the prime of their life...And of course, 13 of them lost their lives.

I've talked to a lot of the families, the moms and the dads, the sisters, of these beautiful, young Americans, and do you know what they'll tell you?

...

What they're angry about is the lack of accountability that happened afterwards. I had to fact check this because I couldn't believe it.

How many in the Department of Defense bureaucracy, senior leadership, how many got fired after that disastrous withdrawal?

Zero.

Sen. Vance didn't just speak about the military or building new homes, though. Vance had a message for all Americans about the meaning of the American Dream, which draws legal immigrants from all over the world, and our country's future--including the promise to provide the fertile soil for "kids to dream" their biggest dreams:

.@JDVance: "The American Dream probably means a hundred different things to a hundred different people but I think the unified thread is we just all want to give our kids and grandkids a better life than we had. That's where we are failing the most -- You want to live in a… pic.twitter.com/EGDUIa2d28

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It's positive messages like this from Republicans in this cycle that explain why polls seem to be moving Team Trump's way. Stay tuned!