Vice President JD Vance spoke about Trump administration policy, his approach to politics, his faith and family life, and more while taking questions at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday evening.
Vance appeared at the event at the request of Erika Kirk, the widow of late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last month at a college event in Utah. The vice president delivered brief remarks before taking questions in front of hundreds of students who packed the auditorium to see Erika and the vice president speak.
Here are some of the highlights from the vice president’s appearance.
One student, a supporter of the Trump administration, worried that the administration was accruing power and setting precedents that would later be used against conservatives.
The vice president responded that, while the question is fair, he is unconcerned about precedents set for a potential Democratic successor to take advantage of. He suggested that Democratic efforts to have the FBI and other law enforcement investigate President Donald Trump and other Republicans show that Democrats are unlikely to respect norms in any case.
“We cannot be afraid to do something because the Left might do it in the future. The Left is already going to do it regardless of whether we do it,” said Vance. “That is the takeaway of the last 40 years.”
VP Vance on the potential for the radical left to misuse power:
“We cannot be afraid to do something because the left might do it in the future. The left is already going to do it regardless of whether we do it. That is the takeaway of the last 40 years.” pic.twitter.com/qWBXPxAj2G
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) October 30, 2025
Vance is in an interfaith marriage; he is Catholic, and his wife, Usha, is non-religious from a Hindu household. On his Christian faith and raising children, Vance said that one of the most important practices in his marriage is communication.
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“As I’ve told her and I’ve said publicly and I’ll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends, do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church? Yeah, I honestly do wish that, because I believe in the Christian gospel and I honestly hope that my wife comes to see it the same way,” said Vance.
Vance also delivered a defense of Christianity and its values, citing a verse from Matthew.
“One of my favorite Bible verses is ‘by your fruits, ye shall know them.’ And I think that the fruits of the Christian faith are the most moral, the most just, and the most prosperous civilization in history,” said Vance. “I make no apologies for believing that Christianity is the pathway to God. I make no apologies for thinking that Christian values are an important foundation of this country, but I’m not going to force you to believe anything because that is not what God wants, and that is not what I want, either.”
🚨 NOW – JD VANCE: We’ve taken Christian values for granted. Treating everyone equal is a Christian concept. Great Britain, a Christian empire, abolished slavery. Eliminating child sacrifice – what did the Christian settlers do in the New World? They found civilizations m*rdering… pic.twitter.com/mqQfMlbu3i
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 30, 2025
On immigration, Vance was asked by a student who is dating an immigrant in the United States on a visa about his overall approach. The vice president said that, in his view, while there are immigrants who enrich the United States, the country has far too many immigrants now and admits too many each year.
“There are people who want to come to the United States of America, and some of them, I am sure, can enrich the United States of America by coming here, but we have got to get our overall numbers way, way down,” he said.
Vice President Vance gets asked about his stance on immigration by a student who’s in a relationship with a girl here on a Visa with hopes of getting a Green Card:
“We have let in too many immigrants into the United States of America. That is just a fundamental reality.”
“I… pic.twitter.com/2bB6idrXhQ
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) October 30, 2025
At another moment, Vance said that immigration levels should be significantly reduced until the foreign-born citizens and legal residents in the United States have assimilated.
“We have got to become a common community again. And you can’t do that when you have such high numbers of immigration,” said Vance.
VP Vance on immigration policies:
“We have got to become a common community again. And you can’t do that when you have such high numbers of immigration, which is one of the reasons why we have the immigration policy we do.” pic.twitter.com/mRuFWWcynq
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) October 30, 2025
The crowd was overwhelmingly pro-Vance. As the vice president finished his prepared remarks and prepared to take questions, the crowd broke out in a chant for “48.”
🚨 WOW! THOUSANDS of students at Ole Miss just started chanting “48! 48!” when VP Vance finished his speech at the TPUSA event
Yes! 48! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/DxJVoMlewv
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 30, 2025
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