Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio Senator JD Vance has come under criticism from the mainstream media for comments he made during a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News.
Regardless of who Trump chose as his vice president, the media would have found something to pick up on. They focused on this clip of Vance because they believed it would attract the most attention from voters.
JD Vance says women like Kamala Harris, who have not given birth to children, are “childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their own lives” and have “no direct stake” in America. pic.twitter.com/3DJY3pQTGe
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 22, 2024
Vance appeared on the “Megyn Kelly Show” and responded to the “childless cat ladies” comment:
I know the media wants to attack me and backtrack on this, Megyn, but my point is that I think your perspective changes pretty fundamentally when you have kids or become a parent.
There’s a deeper point here, Megyn. This is not a criticism of people who don’t have children. I said explicitly in my remarks – despite the fact that the media lied about it – that this is not about criticizing people who, for various reasons, don’t have children. This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child.
JD Vance fires back!
Republican vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance asks on the Megyn Kelly Show why the Democratic Party seems to want to harm children and parents:
“We have to ask ourselves, Megyn, why years after the pandemic we still have to mask juvenile children… pic.twitter.com/7ggNaf8DmL
— Conservative Letter (@ConservBrief) July 26, 2024
Per The hill:
Vance pointed to support among some liberals for juvenile children to continue wearing masks in the years since the coronavirus pandemic began. He also claimed that the Harris campaign is opposed to the child tax credit, even though Harris supported an expansion of that provision as vice president.
Vance has previously said the government should support families by making it easier for them to have children by promoting workplace policies that are more accommodating to working mothers and fathers.
Vance told Kelly:
That’s because they’ve become anti-family and anti-child. And I’m proud to stand up for parents. And I hope that parents out there see that I’m a guy who wants to fight for you. I don’t think we should back down, Megyn. I think we should be candid about the issue.
The media is deliberately ignoring the fact that Vance made it clear in 2021 that he was not referring to people who cannot have children for medical or biological reasons – a crucial context they want to withhold from their viewers.
The media will try to gloss over that part of the speech, but voters are smarter, and if they do a little digging, they’ll see that the media is misleading them once again. As mentioned, no matter who Trump chose as vice president, the media would find something and run with it. That shouldn’t change the reasons Trump chose Vance: his life story is the epitome of the American dream; he’ll be able to go to the Rust Belt, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, to talk to voters there and try to convince undecided voters why they should vote for Trump-Vance, while also helping lower-ballot candidates like Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno.
The media will do and say all sorts of things to paint Vance as a villain, as they have done with Trump for nearly a decade, but the more voters turn away from the mainstream media, the more they realize that the media lies, exaggerates, and misleads the public at every opportunity. We’ll likely hear more stories like this between now and November, but we’ll continue to denounce their misleading arguments.
