[Video below.] Vice President JD Vance cast the November midterm elections as a fight over the future being handed to America’s children, telling Republicans gathered in Dallas Thursday night that affordable homes, safe neighborhoods, strong families and economic opportunity constitute a national “birthright” that voters must protect.

Delivering a prime-time address at the Republican midterm convention, Vance built much of his message around the future he envisions for his infant son, Alec, who was born in July. The Vice President repeatedly broadened that personal theme to include children across the country, arguing that Americans should inherit the benefits and opportunities that previous generations enjoyed.

“I believe that our founders built this nation on a promise that echoes our creator, that every American child is born an heir, is born with a birthright,” Vance said in the keynote address at the Republican midterm convention.

“Born with the right to inherit the blessings of the greatest country on earth. Not because of who their parents are. Not because of what they look like or where they come from, but because they are Americans.

“And that birthright, ladies and gentlemen, is what this November is all about,” he said.

Vance’s “birthright” theme served as the framework for a wide-ranging speech touching on the cost of living, housing, education, health, crime, family life and cultural issues. He portrayed the election as a choice between the Trump administration’s agenda and policies advocated by Democrats.

Much of the address was personal, with Vance repeatedly returning to his newborn son as he described what he believes American parents should be able to expect for their children.

“I want my son to grow up healthy and strong,” Vance said. “I want him to have access to clean water and real food. I want him to live in a country where you don’t need a Ph.D. in chemistry to understand the ingredient list in the grocery store.”

Turning to health care, Vance said he wants his son’s doctors to “answer to parents and to the Hippocratic Oath, not to a bunch of far-left bureaucrats.”

He offered a similar vision for education, saying he wants his son to attend a school that teaches him “to read, to write,” arithmetic and “to love his country and his fellow citizens.”

The Vice President told the convention audience that he views his responsibility in government through the same lens, saying his job is to fight for Americans in the hall and watching from home “as if they were my own family, as if they were my own kid.”

Housing affordability featured prominently in the address, with Vance arguing that younger Americans should have a realistic opportunity to purchase homes and establish families.

“I want them to be able to afford a home where they can raise their children in peace and prosperity and comfort,” Vance said.

He then took aim at institutional investors competing for residential properties, portraying Wall Street’s involvement in the housing market as an obstacle for ordinary families trying to purchase homes.

“I want them to know the pride of saving up for something, of buying something big and real that they’re proud of, without being outbid by Wall Street tycoons. I want them to keep what they’ve earned when they work hard. And that is the birthright that I’m talking about.”

Vance charged that the political left “is working right now to make sure that your children never see that birthright.”

He also used the speech to revisit one of the most contentious cultural issues dividing Republicans and Democrats, arguing against transgender women and girls competing in female athletics.

Vance said he wants “our daughters to compete on a fair field where no politician tells the little girl she’s got to surrender her trophy, her scholarship or her locker room to a man.”

The Vice President then shifted to public safety, saying children should be “safe on their streets, safe in their schools, living peacefully in neighborhoods where the law protects the innocent and throws the violent criminals in prison.”

Family life emerged as another major theme. Vance cited comments he attributed to a Democratic candidate in Michigan concerning the nuclear family, saying such sentiments reflected “from a very deep emptiness in the soul.”

“To the radicals who wish to abolish my family and the thousands and millions of other families all across our country, we have a simple message for them: Stay the hell away from our kids,” he said.

Vance also discussed his role overseeing the administration’s efforts to combat fraud in federal programs. President Donald Trump appointed Vance to lead that initiative in April, and Vance told the convention that investigators had uncovered $250 billion in fraud since then.

He accused Democrats of failing to adequately confront such abuses, saying the Democratic Party in 2026 is “not about you” but “about foreign fraudsters” and “about who they hate.”

The address also carried a somber element, falling exactly one year after the assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

The convention paused for a memorial tribute to Kirk, who was shot and killed at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. Vance, who was personally close to Kirk, recalled looking into the audience during his speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention and seeing Kirk sitting in the front row offering encouragement.

Vance addressed Kirk’s two young children directly during his remarks.

“History will record that your father was a great man. … He was a good man.”

Republicans throughout the arena also participated in a tribute to Kirk, including a memorial video, as chants of his name broke out among delegates and attendees.

Vance’s speech came as Republicans seek to retain control of both chambers of Congress in the Nov. 3 elections. The Dallas gathering was organized specifically to energize Republican voters and promote the party’s candidates and agenda ahead of the midterms.

The Vice President ended where he began, returning to his contention that the election will determine whether the next generation receives what he described as America’s national inheritance.

“The country does not belong to the radicals. It does not belong to the bureaucrats. It does not belong to the highest bidder,” Vance said in closing. “We received this national birthright, and we are going to fight for it by electing Republicans this November.”

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{Matzav.com}