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Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance on Thursday vowed that social conservatives would always have a place in the Republican Party.

“There has been a lot of rumbling in the past few weeks that the Republican Party of now and the Republican Party of the future is not going to be a place that’s welcoming to social conservatives,” Vance said before the Faith and Freedom Coalition breakfast.

Vance said social conservatives should put their faith in Trump, who he said is “uniquely capable and aware of politics being the art of the possible.”

“As you see the administration unfold, as you see the campaign unfold, remember that this is a guy who delivered for social conservatives more than any president in my 39 years of life,” Vance said.

Vance also referenced the 1994 Quentin Tarantino movie “Pulp Fiction” when the character Jules is shot at point blank range but is fine. “He gets into an argument with his fellow violent gangster about whether this was a miracle, whether God had come down from heaven and stopped these ‘mother-effing bullets’,” Vance said. “That was the exact phrase from that movie.”

Vance explained how Jules Winnfield, Samuel L. Jackson’s character, said, “It’s not about whether God changed Coke to Pepsi or found my car keys. What matters is that I felt, I felt a touch of God.” 

Vance said it was in the morning before his RNC headline speech, when he woke up at 3:30 a.m. feeling anxious, that he “felt the touch of God.”

CNN’s Kit Maher contributed to this report.

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