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Vice President JD Vance was midway through his primetime address at the American Airlines Center in Dallas when a protester stepped forward from the GOP convention crowd waving Mexican and Palestinian flags.
The convention's official television feed did not capture it. Vance narrated it for viewers at home, then turned it into the sharpest moment of the night.
The case for the speech as a political win is that the crowd and the message moved in the same direction.
When Vance spotted the heckler, he addressed viewers directly: "What the people at home missed is that we just had a protester interrupting us and waving the Mexican flag." He then offered, on the record, to personally buy the protester a plane ticket to Mexico.
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