The Scene “I’m going to get in trouble for this,” JD Vance his audience at the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute. “This isn’t being recorded, is it? Broadcast live?” Three years ago, when his U.S.
Senate campaign polled in single digits, Vance told a friendly crowd about an idea he’d been kicking around. Conservatives needed to “take aim” at “the childless left,” whose “rejection of the family” was undermining their country. No one in the “next gen of the Democratic Party” — Vice President Kamala Harris, Transportation Sec.
Pete Buttigieg, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — had biological children at the time.
“Why have we let the Democrat party become controlled by people who don’t have children?” he asked. “Why is this just a normal fact of American life, that the leaders of our country should be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring, via their own children and grandchildren?” Vance knew he was being recorded, and ready when Democrats pounced on his comments. Five days after the speech, he repeated the on Tucker Carlson Tonight, the show he’d launched his campaign on.
Yes, he’d said that parents of children deserved a bigger role in democracy than the sad “childless cat ladies” of the left, and he meant it. He once again named Harris, a stepmother of two, as part of that group. “When somebody calls out that ‘Look, if you’re a .