JD Vance makes remarks at Trump campaign event in Phoenix | 2024 Election

PHOENIX - Former President Donald Trump's running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, spoke at a campaign event in Phoenix.

The event was at the Arizona Biltmore on Thursday, Sept. 5. The event began at 3 p.m.

Vance remarks on school shootings

The U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said Thursday.

"If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it," Vance said at the rally in Phoenix. "We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it."

The Ohio senator was asked by a journalist what can be done to stop school shootings. He said further restricting access to guns, as many Democrats advocate, won’t end them, noting they happen in states with both lax and strict gun laws. He touted efforts in Congress to give schools more money for security.

Another campaign stop

The event took place before another Trump campaign event in Mesa. That event is set to feature Arizona Congressman Eli Crane, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and former California Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado, who was nominated to the post by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009, and lost a bid to win the lieutenant governorship in his own right in 2010.

Vance appeared at another conservative political event in the Phoenix area: On Sept. 4, he made an appearance at an event organized by the right-wing organization Turning Point Action at a church near Ellsworth Road and Southern Avenue in Mesa.