Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) vowed before the family of murdered Marine veteran Nicholas Douglas Quets to “kick the cartel’s asses” believed to be responsible for the Arizonan’s murder in Mexico over the weekend.
Speaking to a rally crowd in Tucson Tuesday, where Quets had lived and worked until being gunned down in his pickup truck Friday evening, Vance said he had just spoken with the father and brother-in-law of the Marine. Vance is also a retired Marine.
“To the family of Nicholas … here is my solemn promise to you, while you’ve been ignored by your own government for the last four days, in the midst of this unbelievable tragedy, I promise you that calvary is coming,” Vance said to raucous applause. “And when Donald Trump is president, we’re going to kick the cartel’s asses, and we’re going to do it for you and for every person in this room.”
The Washington Examiner was first to speak with Quets’s father, retired Army Lt. Col. Warren Douglas, Quets and his brother-in-law, retired Air Force Capt. Phil Sweet, Tuesday afternoon, when they disclosed that they had not heard from any U.S. elected official in the four days since Quets’s death.