Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D Vance (R-Ohio) has landed himself in hot water with women, again, over controversial comments.
In a new audio clip posted on X of Vance as a guest on the April 29, 2020 episode of The Portal, hosted by Eric Weinstein, Vance discussed how his mother-in-law helped to raise his son.
Vance said his in-laws were “just devoted” to his son, and it “makes him a better human being to have exposure to his grandparents.”
“That’s the whole purpose of the post-menopausal female,” Weinstein said.
“Yes,” Vance responded.
Vance went on to say that his mother-in-law took a year-long sabbatical from her job as a professor of biology to help her daughter take care of his son.
To which Weinstein said that having a grandmother to help raise his children was a “weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman.”
“Yeah,” Vance agreed, adding that it is “the most transgressive thing I’ve ever done.”
He later said it was “painfully economically inefficient,” because “hyper-liberalized economics wants [women]” to just have the baby, continue to work and use “part of her wages to pay someone else” to care for the child.
“That is the thing that the hyper-liberalized economics wants you to do,” Vance continued. “The economic logic of always prioritizing paid wage labor over other forms of contributing to society is to me..it’s actually a consequence of a sort of fundamental liberalism that is ultimately going to unwind and collapse upon itself.”
Vance’s comment is the latest in a long line of controversial statements targeting women and family.
In 2021, Vance called women without biological children “childless cat ladies” with “no direct stake” in America.
Vance also called for tax penalties for people without children and even suggested giving extra votes to people with children.
The Harris-Walz campaign responded to Vance’s latest comments with a meme: “Days since JD Vance insulted women across America: Zero.”
“It’s a day ending in y,” the statement continued. “Which means yet another day of JD Vance and his Project 2025 agenda being an absolute menace to womankind.”
“The internet is — literally — begging JD to be normal,” the campaign added.
