JD Vance speaks at campaign events in the Valley

Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance attended two political events in the Valley this week.

On Thursday, he spoke at a campaign event at Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix.

You can watch his speech in the player below:

While in Phoenix, Vance spoke one-on-one with ABC15's Political Reporter Ben Brown.

In the wake of another deadly school shooting, this time in Georgia, Vance said gun reform legislation is not the solution and instead wants to bolster security.

“Our schools we know have become soft targets for people who want to make a statement, and kill a lot of people and that means we need more security at our schools,” Vance told ABC15. “If you pass gun reform legislation, that doesn’t cut down on school shootings, you haven’t accomplished anything, if you actually make those schools a little bit safer, beef up the security I think that’s a much greater chance of actually working.”

When it comes to former President Donald Trump’s immigration plan to conduct mass deportation, Vance said “absolutely” when asked if this would involve sweeping raids to find the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

Watch the full interview in the player below:

On Wednesday, Vance was joined by political activist Charlie Kirk at a rally hosted by Turning Point Action at Mesa's Generation Church.

You can watch the rally in the video player below:

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This is Vance's second Valley visit since being named Trump's running mate.

He previously attended a rally in Glendale in late July. At that rally, he spoke one-on-one with ABC15. You can watch that interview in the player below:

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