WATCH: JD Vance Wows the Crowd at National League of Cities

For a guy who has been watching national politics since Walter Mondale was Jimmy Carter's vice president, one thing is apparent: JD Vance is the best guy we've had in the job for many, many years. He's smart, he's capable, he has a beautiful family and a compelling life history.

He's pretty good at presenting in public, too. A vice president is often sent out to promote administration policies, and that's another thing Vice President Vance does well. On Monday, he spoke to the National League of Cities, which is not what you would call the friendliest venue for a Republican, and he made some great points. First, on housing prices:

.@VP: "The average income it takes to buy a new house is nearly 2x the average salary of your typical American family... That’s just not acceptable or sustainable in the United States of America. We want Americans to be a will to afford the American Dream of homeownership." pic.twitter.com/EL8MPbo9Qe
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 10, 2025

The vice president said:

I have to say, I'm hard-pressed to think of a time in my 40 years of life when it's been so hard for normal American citizens to afford a home. Even renting a home has become a challenge. Or worse yet, fallen completely out of reach for so many of our families. I was talking with a relative a couple of years ago, and she made just an off-handed kind of observation. A younger person than I am, she was looking to buy her first home and just mentioned that when her parents were growing up they could afford a nice home on a single middle-class income. She was sort of mentioning this as a sorrowful thing. It's sad that this wasn't true for her generation. And I think all of us in this room certainly including me, have a little bit more work to do to make housing a little more affordable.
I want to talk about that because I think it's the issue where our interests are most aligned, in some ways, with the people in this room. I read recently where the average income it takes to buy a new house is nearly two times the average salary of your typical American family. Not the average American worker, but the combined incomes of a husband and wife. And that's just not acceptable or sustainable. Not in the United States of America. We want Americans to be able to afford the American dream of home ownership. Because we know that when people own their homes, it makes them a stakeholder. It makes them a stakeholder in their neighborhood, in their cities, and ultimately of course in this country that all of us love so much.

That's powerful stuff, and we've all seen it. This has affected my own family; I've mentioned repeatedly how our two younger daughters, one married, one single, can only afford a decent rental condo in the Denver suburbs by combining three incomes; our older two can afford homes because they live in a small town in Iowa where real estate is much more affordable. But that's not an option for many Americans, and next, Vice President Vance takes some time to name and shame one of the causes of rising housing prices.

.@VP: The U.S. unfortunately made it way too easy for people to compete against Amercian citizens for the precious homes that are in our country... you see a very consistent relationship between a massive increase in immigration and a massive increase in housing prices. pic.twitter.com/bmabfa1Czx
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 10, 2025

The vice president's remarks in full:

The U.S. unfortunately made it way too easy for people to compete against American citizens for the precious homes that are in our country to begin with. Now I'll say this, it's actually not just an American problem, either. If you go to Canada, where because of their laws and regulations, they've seen a massive increase in the number of people who have come into their country, you go to the United Kingdom, you go across the world, and you see a very consistent relationship between a massive increase in immigration and a massive increase in housing prices.

This is Supply and Demand 101: The more people competing for a resource, the more the price of the resource rises. But there is also the supply side of the equation, and that's where many of the big cities across the world are failing, as restrictive development requirements, regulations, and zoning laws make building new housing more expensive, and so that ideal of American homeownership keeps getting ratcheted out of reach.

Finally, we got to see the vice president transform a heckler's pronouns to "embarrassed" and "humiliated." That's assuming this heckler is capable of either, of course.

.@VP nukes a heckler who interrupts his speech at the National League of Cities: "I see one of our nice representatives out here wants to actually, I guess, continue to flood the country with illegal immigrants — making your communities and cities unaffordable." pic.twitter.com/Yc1SUW4oxW
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 10, 2025

(Shouting, inaudible heckler) I see one of our nice representatives out here wants to actually, I guess, continue to flood the country with illegal immigrants — making your communities and (cities) unaffordable. But ma'am, with all respect, one of the reasons why we're doing what we're doing is because we want to make it more affordable for Americans to live. That is one of the reasons why we're doing what we're doing.

You heard it here, well, not first, but again: The left is against affordable housing, against making Americans more prosperous, and in favor of letting illegal immigrants remain in our country.

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Of course, we knew that already.

JD Vance is proving himself to be a rising star in the Republican Party. Whether he chooses to run in 2028 or not — and that's an eternity away in politics — we will not have seen the last of him when President Trump's second term ends. He's young, he's clearly ambitious, and it would be surprising not to see him in the Oval Office one day. And why not? Who do the Democrats have as far as comparable candidates? The impeccably coiffed Gavin Newsom, who has presided over the descent of California into penury and chaos? Pete Buttigieg, who, as Secretary of Transportation, was... there some of the time? AOC, who is out there somewhere to the political left of Pol Pot?

We've got a few fun election cycles coming up.