With the 2020 Presidential election four months away, Vice President Mike Pence stressed the importance of the choice that Americans have to make regarding the outcome of the nation.
On Friday, Pence delivered a speech to about 50 at Ripon College in Wisconsin. Throughout the speech, he warned of the dangers that a Joe Biden Presidency would have on the U.S. if he wins the election.
Ripon, Wisconsin also happens to be the birthplace of the Republican Party, which was formed in 1854. According to the Associated Press, three existing parties that would form the Republican Party had their first meeting at the Little White Schoolhouse, which is now a national historic landmark.
“When that first convention met here in 1854, they wrote that their decision to found a new political party had been ‘forced upon us by the slave power and in the defense of freedom,’” Pence said. “They said that they would cooperate and be known as Republicans.”
Like the original Republicans, the Vice President made it clear that Americans today are standing on the “crossroads of freedom.”
“You know, it’s not so much whether America will be more conservative or more liberal, more Republican or Democrat, more red or blue. It’s whether America remains America.” Pence said.
“It’s whether we will leave to our children and our grandchildren a country grounded in our highest ideals of freedom, free…
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