In response to latest reporting on JD Vance attacking millions of Americans without children, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: 

“It is beyond insulting that a creep like JD Vance would attack millions of adults without children as ‘sociopathic’ and more likely to be ‘deranged’ as part of his warped and out-of-touch worldview. But Vance isn’t just denigrating Americans – he’s backing up his own disturbing rhetoric with extreme plans like undermining the voice of Americans without children in our democracy, banning abortion nationwide, and even suggesting that women should stay in violent marriages. Just like Donald Trump, Vance is running on a dangerous and wildly unpopular agenda that Americans want nothing to do with – and no amount of mean-spirited and offensive insults from Vance will change that.”

NEW: JD Vance insulted childless adults as “sociopathic,” “deranged,” and “psychotic.” 

CNN: “Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance has a history of making disparaging remarks toward people without children, a CNN KFile review of his comments shows, including fundraising off his now-infamous ‘childless cat lady’ remarks in a series of emails that called Democratic leaders ‘childless sociopath’ who ‘don’t have a direct stake in this country.’

“In November 2020, Vance said on a conservative podcast that childless Americans, especially those in the country’s ‘leadership class,’ were ‘more sociopathic’ than those with children and made the country ‘less mentally stable.’ Vance added that the ‘most deranged’ and ‘most psychotic’ commentators on Twitter – now known as X – were typically childless.”

Vance has repeatedly attacked and disparaged Americans who don’t have children, and wants to undermine their role in our democracy.

Pat Rynard, Courier Newsroom: “JD Vance says Americans without children should ‘face the consequences and the reality’ and not get ‘nearly the same voice’ in democracy”

The Federalist: “J.D. Vance, a U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, called out the ‘childless left’ whom he said have ‘no physical commitment to the future of this country’ in a fiery speech given to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s conference on the Future of American Political Economy…

“‘Why is this just a normal fact of …  life, for the leaders of our country to be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring?’

“‘The Democrats are talking about giving the vote to 16-year-olds,’ Vance noted. ‘Let’s do this instead. Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of the children.’ He continued, asking, ‘Doesn’t this mean that nonparents don’t have as much of a voice as parents? Doesn’t this mean that parents get a bigger say in how democracy functions?’ He answered with a simple ‘yes’ after saying ‘the Atlantic and the Washington Post and all the usual suspects’ would criticize him.”

ABC News: “[Vance] suggested that the country needed to ‘reward the things that we think are good’ and ‘punish the things that we think are bad’ — before suggesting that individuals without children should be taxed at a higher rate than those with children.”

Vance’s anti-choice record also includes saying he’d like “abortion to be illegal nationally,” celebrating when Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, criticizing exceptions for rape and incest, and more.

CNN: “JD Vance said in 2022 he ‘would like abortion to be illegal nationally’”

“JD Vance said he ‘certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally’ and was ‘sympathetic’ to the view that a national ban was necessary to stop women from traveling across states to obtain an abortion.”

Manu Raju, CNN: “J.D. Vance, the Ohio GOP senator, says Republicans need to shift their approach on abortion and begin to embrace federal legislation … ‘We can’t give into the idea that the federal Congress has no role in this matter,’ he told us.”

Newsweek: “J.D. Vance Backs ‘National Standard’ for Abortions”

Washington Post: “Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws”

Daily Beast: “J.D. Vance suggested he would support prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape and incest—and dismissed those catalysts as ‘inconvenient.’”

Vance suggested women should stay in violent marriages.

Vance: “This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that like, ‘well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term.’”

Vice: “JD Vance Suggests People in ‘Violent’ Marriages Shouldn’t Get Divorced”

Vance somehow also thinks that policies that support families and child care are a “war against normal people.”

Vance: “‘Universal day care’ is class war against normal people.”

Vance: “It turns out that normal Americans care more about their families than their jobs, and want a family policy that doesn’t shunt their kids into crap daycare so they can enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid labor force.”