GOP vice presidential nominee and Ohio Senator JD Vance has been under scrutiny by the mainstream media for comments he made in 2021 during an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News.
Regardless of who Trump chose as his VP, the media would have found something to latch onto. They zeroed in on this clip from Vance, believing it would draw the most attention from voters.
Vance joined "The Megyn Kelly Show," and he addressed the "childless cat ladies" comment:
I know the media wants to attack me and wants me to back down on this, Megyn, but the simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way.
There’s a deeper point here, Megyn. It’s not a criticism of people who don’t have children. I explicitly said in my remarks — despite the fact the media has lied about this — that this is not about criticizing people who for various reasons didn’t have kids. This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming antifamily and antichildren.
Per The Hill:
Vance pointed to support from some liberals for young children to continue to wear masks in the years after the coronavirus pandemic began. He also claimed the Harris campaign has opposed the child tax credit, though Harris as vice president has supported expanding that policy.
Vance has previously expressed that the government should support families by making it easier for them to have children by promoting workplace policies that are more accommodating for working mothers and fathers.
Vance told Kelly:
It’s because they have become antifamily and antikid. And I’m proud to stand up for parents. And I hope that parents out there recognize that I’m a guy who wants to fight for you. I don’t think we should back down from it, Megyn. I think we should be honest about the problem.
The media conveniently overlooks the fact that Vance, in 2021, explicitly clarified he was not referring to individuals who are unable to have children due to medical or biological reasons, a crucial context they don't want their viewers to hear.
The media will try to bury that part of the speech, but voters are smarter than that, and if they do some digging, they will see that the media is, once again, misleading them. As mentioned earlier, no matter who Trump chose as his VP pick, the media would find something and run with it. This shouldn't change the reason why Trump chose Vance: His life story is the epitome of the American dream; he will be able to go into the Rust Belt, such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, speak to voters, and try to convince undecided voters on why they should vote for the Trump-Vance ticket while helping down-ballot candidates like Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno.
The media will do and say anything possible to make Vance look like a bad guy like they've done with Trump for nearly the past decade, but as more voters turn off the mainstream media, they realize that the media lies, overexaggerates, and misleads the public any chance they get. We will likely hear more stories similar to this one until November but we will continue to call out their misleading talking points.
