In response to new polling showing how unpopular JD Vance’s dangerous and weird attacks on women are, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: 

“JD Vance’s dangerous, insulting, and downright weird attacks on women are (unsurprisingly) lowering his standing with voters every day. The American people know a creep when they see one — and Vance’s far-right record of pushing to ban abortion nationwide, suggesting women should stay in violent marriages, and attacking exceptions for rape and incest while dismissing them as ‘inconvenient’ circumstances is as unpopular as it is horrifying. Vance’s bizarre and off-putting track record has proven again and again to be a massive liability to the Trump-Vance losing MAGA ticket – just like the rest of their extreme Project 2025 agenda.”

NEW POLLING: The more voters learn about JD Vance’s dangerous and weird attacks on women, the more they dislike him.

Semafor: “New polling shared exclusively with Semafor shows Democrats’ attacks on JD Vance’s views on abortion, divorce and ‘childless cat ladies’ are sticking with voters.

“A pair of surveys by Blueprint, the centrist Democratic pollster backed by Reid Hoffman, one taken July 21 – July 22, two days after Vance was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate, and then again two weeks later on August 4, showed Vance’s net favorability falling from -7 to -11 with fewer voters unsure either way. That’s similar to other public polling, which has also shown Vance making a poor first impression since joining the Republican ticket.

“The main shift in how respondents viewed Vance: He’s become more and more identified with his particular brand of conservatism and less with his famed biography as an author, veteran, and politician. Presented with a list of options to describe Vance in August, the most common answers were ‘conservative,’ ‘anti-woman,’ and ‘weird,’ while more positive options like ‘young,’ ‘smart,’ and ‘businessman’ declined from July. The percentage calling him ‘extreme’ shot up 13 points…

“Of the statements offered, participants were most aware of the ‘childless cat lady’ comments with 50% of those surveyed saying they had heard of the remarks and 55% saying they were bothered by them. Scoring worse, but less well-known: A 2021 interview with Spectrum News in which he defended a Texas abortion law’s lack of exceptions for rape and incest by suggesting pregnancies from such circumstances are ‘inconvenient.’ Sixty-two percent of voters said they were ‘bothered’ Vance used the word ‘inconvenient’ to describe pregnancies that stem from rape and incest with 50% reporting ‘it bothers me a lot.’”

REMINDER: Vance wants abortion to be “illegal nationally,” suggested women should stay in violent marriages, and has repeatedly disparaged Americans who don’t have children.

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.”

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

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

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.”

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”

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 VP launch has been a disaster…

Vox: “J.D. Vance has made it impossible for Trump to run away from Project 2025”

New Republic: “Project 2025 Leader Is Overjoyed by Trump’s Vice Presidential Pick”

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

CNN: “It’s not just ‘cat ladies’: JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids”

ABC News: “Vance argued for higher tax rate on childless Americans in 2021 interview”

NBC News: “JD Vance doubles down on ‘childless cat ladies’ dig: ‘I’ve got nothing against cats’”

Washington Post: “Vance urged DOJ to enforce Comstock Act, crack down on abortion pills”

The Hill: “Some House Republicans slam Vance as Trump’s VP pick: ‘The worst choice’”

The Hill: “Republican senators divided over Trump sticking with Vance”

Axios: “Some Republicans express buyer’s remorse over Vance VP pick”

New Republic: “Is J.D. Vance the Worst Vice Presidential Pick Ever?”

CNN: “Vance confronts upheaval and uncertainty in first 10 days as Trump’s running mate”

… making him the most disliked VP nominee our country has seen in decades.

Washington Post: “It’s getting worse for JD Vance”

“A half-dozen polls have now tested views of Vance more than once in the last few weeks. In each of them, his already-underwhelming image ratings have deteriorated — sometimes significantly…

“His net favorable ratings have dropped:

• Three points in Reuters-Ipsos polls between July 16 and July 28 (the end dates for the polls).
• Five points in Economist-YouGov polls between July 23 and July 30.
• Eight points in AP-NORC polls between July 15 and July 29.
• Nine points in other YouGov polls (that weren’t sponsored by a media outlet) between July 15 and July 25.
• Nine points in ABC News-Ipsos polls between July 20 and July 27.
• And six points in a new NPR/PBS/Marist College poll, versus its July 22 poll.”

Newsweek: “JD Vance Is the Least Liked VP Nominee in Decades, According to Polls”

“JD Vance is the first non-incumbent vice presidential nominee to have a net-negative favorable rating after a convention since 1980, according to poll numbers.”

Salon: “‘Making history in the completely wrong way’: JD Vance is really unpopular and ‘dragging Trump down’”

“Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, is making history as Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate, but not in the way that the Trump campaign had hoped. According to a CNN survey taken after the Republican National Convention, Vance has an approval rating of -6 points, making him the first vice presidential nominee to enter the general election with a negative rating since 1980…

“‘Frankly, I don’t really understand the pick, and apparently neither do the American voters,’ CNN data analyst Harry Enten said on Tuesday’s OutFront with Erin Burnett. Vance, he said, is ‘dragging Trump down.’”

Newsweek: “Nearly four in 10 people do not believe Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, is ready for the presidency if necessary, according to a new survey…

“The poll also found that one-third (33 percent) were not sure if Vance was ready for the presidency or not. This is a possible sign that the Hillbilly Elegy author, who has been a senator for less than two years, still needs to raise his national political profile since being named as the Republican vice presidential nominee…

“It has already been suggested that Trump may have made a mistake in picking Vance as his 2024 running mate.”

Donald Trump even refused to say if Vance is ready to lead on day one.

Harris Faulker, Fox News: “When you look at JD Vance, is he ready on day one?”

Trump: “Is he what?”

Faulkner: “Ready on day one if he has to be?”

Trump: “I’ve always had great respect for him. And for the other candidates too. But I will say this, and I think this is well documented; Historically, the vice president in terms of the election does not have any impact, I mean virtually no impact.”