In response to (yet another) bizarre interview with JD Vance, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: 

“Every time JD Vance opens his mouth, he insults millions of Americans, spews unhinged conspiracy theories, and his approval rating plummets to new lows. Vance is just like Trump – they can’t fathom caring about anyone but themselves.”

LISTEN: JD Vance attacked Americans without kids as “trying to brainwash the minds of our children.”

Vance: “So many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids trying to brainwash the minds of our children … Randi Weingarten … She doesn’t have a single child. If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.”

Here’s a snapshot of some of Vance’s weirdest, creepiest, and most dangerous attacks on women:

Vance, when asked if he regrets making his “childless cat lady” comments: “I regret, certainly, that a lot of people took it the wrong way…I have a lot of regrets…but making a joke three years ago is not in the top ten of the list.”

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

“During a podcast interview in January 2022, then-candidate 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.”

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

Letter Signed by Vance and Other Members of Congress: “Abortion is not health care—it is a brutal act that destroys the life of an unborn child and hurts women. Congress did not authorize HHS to extend special provisions for abortion such as these under the guise of ‘health care.’ The Proposed Rule unlawfully thwarts the enforcement of compassionate laws protecting unborn children and their mothers, and directs health care providers to defy lawful court orders and search warrants.”

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

Vance: “It makes [his son] a much better human being, to have exposure to his grandparents. And the evidence on this, by the way, is super clear.”

Interviewer: “That’s the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female, in theory.”

Vance: “Yes.”

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.”