Sen. J.D. Vance headlined the third night of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday touting a populist, conservative message on energy policy that stirred Milwaukee’s GOP crowd into a frenzy.
The Ohio Republican — whom former president and presidential nominee Donald Trump named his running mate this week — stopped short of directly calling for more fossil fuel production or blasting electric vehicles, as he has in the past. But his message to the Republican base was clear: President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda is harming Americans.
Like other speakers at the convention Wednesday, Vance mocked the administration’s energy and climate goals as a “Green New Scam.”
He named Biden as the reason for high energy prices while clamoring for more domestic energy production, and he cast Trump’s potential reelection as the panacea for the country’s energy challenges.
