Donald Trump’s nominee for Vice President, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), has become infamous for criticizing miserable “childless cat ladies.” In a resurfaced statement from 2021, Vance stated that the country is run by childless women who are unhappy due to their life choices. Alongside these comments, Vance has tried to position himself as an advocate for heterosexual parents with biological children.
Vance later tried to walk back his comments, which have been described as misogynistic and insulting, saying they were taken out of context. “The left has increasingly become explicitly anti-child and anti-family," he told Fox News' Trey Gowdy in July. “This is not a criticism and never was a criticism of everybody without children — that is a lie of the left. It’s a criticism of the increasingly anti-parent and anti-child attitude of the left."
