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Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks in Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 22, 2026

January 22, 2026 · The White House · 0:45:08

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What happened

Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks in Toledo, Ohio, on January 22, 2026 — the second Ohio-valley stop of a day that also took him to Minneapolis — headlining an event built around the administration’s first-year economic record. His introducer framed that record as he stated it: “Core inflation just reached its lowest level in 5 years. Wages and take-home pay are up. Fair trade is bringing back American industry,” with “about 700,000 jobs in their first year due to 18 trillion dollars of investment that’s going to come into America,” and working-family tax cuts that “will put thousands of dollars back in working families’ bank accounts starting this year.”

The introduction presented the Vice President — an Ohioan by upbringing, and, it noted, soon to be a father of four — as the administration’s case that the comeback “is starting right here in great cities like Toledo.” Vance’s remarks carried the same America First economic argument to the Toledo audience.

Why it matters

Ohio is the Vice President’s home state and a manufacturing bellwether, and the Toledo stop is part of the administration’s year-two effort to sell its economic record in the industrial Midwest — the argument, and the figures attached to it, that this site’s scoreboard tracks into the November 2026 midterms.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the figures stated at this event by the Vice President’s introducer — core inflation at a five-year low, roughly 700,000 first-year jobs, $18 trillion in investment — are tracked claims for the year-one economic record.

Sources: The White House, “Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks in Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 22, 2026” (official upload, embedded above). Figures as stated at the event.