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July 25, 2024

"Childless Cat Ladies with Miserable Lives": J.D. Vance Mocks Democratic Leaders in Resurfaced Tape
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In other election news, J.D. Vance's views on women and the LGBTQ
community have come under the spotlight following his nomination as
Trump's running mate. In this 2021 interview with former Fox News host
Tucker Carlson, Vance attacks Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
and Pete Buttigieg, claiming people without children should not be
involved in policy decisions.

J.D. Vance: "We're effectively run in this country, via the Democrats,
be it via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies,
who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made,
and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. And
it's just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC -
the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without
children."

Harris is a stepmother to two adult children. Also in 2021, Vance
advocated for a voting system that would allow people with children to
cast more votes, on behalf of their children.

In other news about J.D. Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee
has written the foreword to a forthcoming book by Kevin Roberts,
president of the Heritage Foundation and head of Project 2025. Trump's
campaign has disavowed any connection to Project 2025, a radical
Republican blueprint to overhaul U.S. policy on everything from
immigration to reproductive rights to the climate.


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