LOWER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. – While some welcomed Vice President JD Vance’s visit with open arms, others took to the streets in protest.<\/p>\n
69 News Reporter Sydney Kay has more about the mix of cheers and chants from the Lehigh Valley community.<\/p>\n
Freezing cold temperatures didn\u2019t stop those looking to be first in line at Vice President Vance\u2019s event at Uline near Alburtis Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got here at 4:30 a.m.,\u201d said Nima Poursohi, from New Jersey.<\/p>\n
The Office of the Vice President states the visit highlights President Trump\u2019s economic success and the administration\u2019s commitment to lower prices and bigger paychecks.<\/p>\n
This stop comes just one week after President Trump stopped in Monroe County to speak about the inflation crisis that he says was inherited from the Biden Administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast week was my first Trump rally and how cool is it that one week you get to meet the President and the next week you get to meet the Vice President,\u201d said Talina Stackhouse, from Easton.<\/p>\n
One supporter we spoke to says he wasn\u2019t surprised to see back-to-back visits as we\u2019re less than one year out from the midterm elections.<\/p>\n
\u201cPennsylvania’s a crucial state, it\u2019s a battleground state. We have to win it. We have to maintain the house, we\u2019ve got to win the house and there are crucial congressional races taking place,\u201d said Edward X. Young, from New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the VP\u2019s event, doors opened at Uline to dozens. Meanwhile, an organized protest was on display about four miles away.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to be known, we need to be heard. We need him to know that we\u2019re important. It\u2019s not about certain people, it\u2019s about the whole country,\u201d said Lois Wing, from Allentown.<\/p>\n
The group behind the protest, Indivisible, is a progressive grassroots political movement formed after Trump\u2019s election.<\/p>\n
The Lehigh Valley Chapter\u2019s lead organizer says Vance\u2019s trip after Trump\u2019s is due to what she calls their \u2018flippable\u2019 district, and their message on the economy is not hitting home with those struggling, especially around the holidays.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t call something a \u2018democratic hoax\u2019 like prices when people check out at the grocery store like I do,\u201d said Brooke McDermott, lead organizer with the Indivisible Lehigh Valley Chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. – While some welcomed Vice President JD Vance’s visit with open arms, others took…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,17366,157,2754,28,33268,33494],"class_list":{"0":"post-62642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-jd-vance","12":"tag-lehigh-valley","13":"tag-lower-macungie-township","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-uline","16":"tag-vice-president-jd-vance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}