But even for a red-meat, red-state Senate candidate, this was a remarkably harsh — and conspiracy-minded — insult to a large number of people: Around one in six American women 40 to 44 have never had children. It’s the kind of comment that makes you wonder if Vance thinks that he has been nominated by the Republican Party to serve as the vice president of the Republic of Gilead.
{Gilead is the fictional country in the book/series "The Handmaid's Tale."}
Source: "JD Vance’s ‘Cat Ladies’ Riff Has Serious ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Vibes" By Paul Krugman - NY Times - 7/25/24
"Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children. When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power — you should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic — than people who don’t have kids. Let’s face the consequences and the reality: If you don’t have as much of an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn’t get nearly the same voice."
--from a 2021 speech that Vance gave to a conservative organization called the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Source: "In his attacks on the ‘childless’ left, JD Vance once hyped a plan to give parents more votes" By Ja'han Jones - MSNBC - 7/25/24
Mr. Vance’s former comments about Mr. Trump were displayed during a hearing examining Mr. Trump’s assassination attempt at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
Source: Jason Andrew for The New York Times