Highlights:
September 2021: Vance Tweeted, “Cat Ladies […] Must Be Stopped” In Response To A Report That Said Americans Feared Having Children Due To Climate Change. According to CNN, “In September 2021, Vance tweeted that ‘cat ladies…must be stopped’ in response to a report that a higher percentage of Americans fear having children because of climate change. In another tweet a month later, Vance wrote, ‘Our country’s low birth rates have made many elites sociopaths.’” [CNN, 7/30/24]
2021: Vance Said The Country Was Being Run By “A Bunch Of Childless Cat Ladies” Who Wanted To Make The Country Miserable. According to The Hill, “Vance has come under fire in recent days because of comments he made in 2021 when he was campaigning for an Ohio Senate seat. He told then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson the country was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” [The Hill, 7/26/24]
VIDEO: August 2021: Vance Referred To Childless Adults As “Sociopaths Who Don’t Care About America’s Children.” According to Fox News via YouTube, “VANCE: The left feels comfortable experimenting on children with the lockdowns, with the mask mandates, and it’s their general approach to public policy, because they’re increasingly the party and the movement that doesn’t have kids. And I look at the way that they think about, for example, whether we should mask children or whether we should actually secure the southern border, if you’re a childless adult living in New York City, you probably care more about your house cleaner than you do about the children of America. But if you’re a parent and you see this effect of this non-stop lockdown and masking has on kids, then you’re going to care more about the kids. So I think, basically what we’ve done is we’ve allowed the Democrats to become dominated by a bunch of sociopaths who don’t care about America’s children. And we just need to call it out.” [Fox News via YouTube, 8/4/21]
2019: Vance: “We Think Babies Are Good And We Think Babies Are Good Because We’re Not Sociopaths.” According to CNN, “In a 2019 speech, Vance articulated his belief in the positive impact that children have on society and individual lives. [...] ‘ So, I would say that we should care about declining fertility, not just because it’s bad for our economy, but because we think babies are good and we think babies are good because we’re not sociopaths.” [CNN, 7/30/24]
November 2020: Vance: “You Go On Twitter And Almost Always The People Who Are Most Deranged And Most Psychotic Are People Who Don’t Have Kids At Home.” According to CNN, “‘There are just these basic cadences of life that I think are really powerful and really valuable when you have kids in your life,’ Vance said in November 2020 on a conservative podcast. ‘And the fact that so many people, especially in America’s leadership class, just don’t have that in their lives. You know, I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less, less mentally stable,’ he said. ‘And of course, you talk about going on Twitter – final point I’ll make is you go on Twitter and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don’t have kids at home.’” [CNN, 7/30/24]
July 2021: Vance Suggested It Was “Not Good” And “Not Healthy” For Adults To Not Have Children
AUDIO: July 2021: Vance Said It Was “Not Good” And “Not Healthy” For Adults To Forgo Having Children. According to the Future of American Political Economy Conference via SoundCloud, “VANCE: But what society has built its entire civilization – the flow of information, the leaders of its country political and governmental and also corporate – around completely childless adults? It’s never happened. This is a new thing in American life, but I think it’s probably a new thing in world history. It’s not good. It’s not healthy. You see the obsessive, weird, almost humiliating aggressive posture of our media and you wonder, how can these people possibly seem to be so miserable and unhappy, when the answer is because they don’t have any kids. Kids are the ultimate way that we find, healthy people at least, any self-meaning in life. Whether your own children, your grandchildren, your nieces and nephews.” [Future of American Political Economy Conference via SoundCloud, 7/23/21]
August 2021: Vance Sent A Fundraiser Email That Said There Were “Radical Childless Leaders In This Country.” According to CNN, “In August 2021, one month after launching his candidacy for the Senate, Vance’s campaign sent fundraising emails referring to the ‘radical childless leaders in this country’ following his appearance on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ where he made comments deriding ‘childless cat ladies’ and leaders running the country. The comments sparked a widespread backlash against Vance when they resurfaced on social media following his nomination to the Republican presidential ticket.” [CNN, 7/30/24]
August 2021: Vance Sent A Fundraiser Email That Warned Americans About The “Serious Issue Of Radical Childless Leaders In This Country.” According to CNN, “‘Did you see me on FOX Primetime recently? I needed to speak DIRECTLY to patriots like you about the serious issue of radical childless leaders in this country,’ reads one Vance fundraising email from August 2021. ‘We can’t have people who don’t have a direct stake in this country making our most important decisions.’” [CNN, 7/30/24]
August 2021: Vance Said In A Fundraiser Email That People Were “Dominated By Childless Sociopaths.” According to CNN, “We’ve allowed ourselves to be dominated by childless sociopaths - they’re invested in NOTHING because they’re not invested in this country’s children. Fighting back won’t be easy - our childless opponents have a lot of free time. That’s why I need YOU to stand with me.” [CNN, 7/30/24]
In A Separate Fundraiser Email Vance Said: “Our Country Is Basically Run By Childless Democrats Who Are Miserable In Their Own Lives And Want To Make The Rest Of The Country Miserable Too.” According to CNN, “Another fundraising email reads, ‘Our country is basically run by childless Democrats who are miserable in their own lives and want to make the rest of the country miserable too… What I want to know is: why have we turned our country over to people who don’t have a direct stake in it?’” [CNN, 7/30/24]
August 2021: Vance Said In A Fundraiser Email That People Without Children Were Invested In “NOTHING Because They’re Not Invested In This Country’s Children.” According to CNN, “We’ve allowed ourselves to be dominated by childless sociopaths - they’re invested in NOTHING because they’re not invested in this country’s children. Fighting back won’t be easy - our childless opponents have a lot of free time. That’s why I need YOU to stand with me.” [CNN, 7/30/24]
July 2024: Vance: “Obviously, It Was A Sarcastic Comment. I’ve Got Nothing Against Cats.” According to CNN, “Vance later tried to clean up his comments on Megyn Kelly’s podcast last week. ‘Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats,’ said Vance, adding that his remarks were not about criticizing people without children, but rather focused on policy and claimed the Democratic Party has become ‘anti-family’ and ‘anti-child.’” [CNN, 7/30/24]
AUDIO: July 2021: Vance Said The Democrat Party Was A “Childless Cabal Of People Who Don’t Really Care About The Future.” According to America First with Sebastian Gorka via SoundCloud, “VANCE: What I find so disturbing about this, if you think about the modern Democrat Party, not the older guys - the Clintons, the Bernie Sanders, and the Joe Bidens - but think about Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, all of these people, it’s like a party where the next generation of leaders, none of them have kids, right? And look, like I understand some people don’t have kids, there are health reasons, there are other reasons people don’t want to have kids. But the entire Democrat Party is like this childless cabal of people who don’t really care about the future.” [America First with Sebastian Gorka via SoundCloud, 7/12/21]
VIDEO: August 2021: Vance Said, “What We’ve Done Is We’ve Allowed The Democrats To Become Dominated By A Bunch Of Sociopaths Who Don’t Care About America’s Children.” According to Fox News via YouTube, “VANCE: The left feels comfortable experimenting on children with the lockdowns, with the mask mandates, and it’s their general approach to public policy, because they’re increasingly the party and the movement that doesn’t have kids. And I look at the way that they think about, for example, whether we should mask children or whether we should actually secure the southern border, if you’re a childless adult living in New York City, you probably care more about your house cleaner than you do about the children of America. But if you’re a parent and you see this effect of this non-stop lockdown and masking has on kids, then you’re going to care more about the kids. So I think, basically what we’ve done is we’ve allowed the Democrats to become dominated by a bunch of sociopaths who don’t care about America’s children. And we just need to call it out.” [Fox News via YouTube, 8/4/21]
November 2020: Vance Accused The Country’s “Leadership Class” Without Children As Being “More Sociopathic” And “Less Mentally Stable” Than People With Children. According to CNN, “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. [CNN, 7/30/24]
VIDEO: August 2021: Vance Suggested Democrats “Think It’s Bad If You Have Kids.” According to Newsmax via YouTube, “VANCE: I was looking at the leaders of the Democrats and realized how many of the next-gen leaders of the Democrats, it’s Kamala Harris, it’s AOC, it’s a lot of folks like that, they’re not planning to have kids, they don’t have kids. And I noticed that, you know, not having children I think changes the way you think about the future of the country. If you don’t have skin in the game, you pointed to some of the studies that suggests that parents think about the future of the country in a different way. And I realized that we’re being ruled by a childless elite and it’s not just that they don’t have kids, of course a lot of people don’t have kids for different reasons, it’s that they’re proud of the fact they don’t have kids. They think it’s bad if you have kids.” [Newsmax via YouTube, 8/30/21]
July 2024: Vance Said The Democratic Party Became “Anti-Family” And “Anti-Child.” According to CNN, “Vance later tried to clean up his comments on Megyn Kelly’s podcast last week. ‘Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats,’ said Vance, adding that his remarks were not about criticizing people without children, but rather focused on policy and claimed the Democratic Party has become ‘anti-family’ and ‘anti-child.’” [CNN, 7/30/24]
AUDIO: July 2021: Vance: “What You Find Consistently Is That Many Of The Most Unhappy, And Most Miserable, And Most Angry People In Our Media Are Childless Adults.” According to the Future of American Political Economy Conference via SoundCloud, “VANCE: And what you find consistently is that many of the most unhappy, and most miserable, and most angry people in our media are childless adults.” [Future of American Political Economy Conference via SoundCloud, 7/23/21]
AUDIO: July 2021: Vance Suggested That Childless Members Of The Media Were Not “Impressive” Enough To Find Self-Meaning Without Children. According to the Future of American Political Economy Conference via SoundCloud, “VANCE: And what you find consistently is that many of the most unhappy, and most miserable, and most angry people in our media are childless adults. Let’s just be honest about it. Because look, the elite model, the American dream to the elites, is get as much credentials as you can, get as much money as you can, get the most prestigious job, and that’s where you’re going to find your self-worth. But I’ve got to be honest with you, most of our mainstream reporters are not impressive enough to find a lot of self-meaning in their jobs they’re just not good enough at it.” [Future of American Political Economy Conference via SoundCloud, 7/23/21]
AUDIO: July 2021: Vance Claimed Members Of The Media Were “Obsessive” And “Weird” Because They Did Not Have Children. According to the Future of American Political Economy Conference via SoundCloud, “VANCE: But what society has built its entire civilization – the flow of information, the leaders of its country political and governmental and also corporate – around completely childless adults? It’s never happened. This is a new thing in American life, but I think it’s probably a new thing in world history. It’s not good. It’s not healthy. You see the obsessive, weird, almost humiliating aggressive posture of our media and you wonder, how can these people possibly seem to be so miserable and unhappy, when the answer is because they don’t have any kids. Kids are the ultimate way that we find, healthy people at least, any self-meaning in life. Whether your own children, your grandchildren, your nieces and nephews.” [Future of American Political Economy Conference via SoundCloud, 7/23/21]
VIDEO: March 2021: Vance Claimed Childless Adults Should Pay A Higher Tax Rate Than Those With Children. According to a Twitter video via American Bridge, “VANCE: We need to reward the things we think are good, and punish the things we think are bad. So you talk about tax policy, let's tax the things that are bad, and not tax the things that are good. If you’re making $100,000, $400,000 a year, and you’ve got three kids you should pay a different, lower tax rate, than if you’re making the same amount of money, and you don’t have any kids. It's that simple.” [Twitter, @American_Bridge, 7/26/24]
VIDEO: March 2021: Vance Claimed Childless Adults Should Pay A Higher Tax Rate Than Those With Children Immediately After Saying “We Should "Punish The Things That We Think Are Bad." According to a Twitter video via American Bridge, “VANCE: We need to reward the things we think are good, and punish the things we think are bad. So you talk about tax policy, let's tax the things that are bad, and not tax the things that are good. If you’re making $100,000, $400,000 a year, and you’ve got three kids you should pay a different, lower tax rate, than if you’re making the same amount of money, and you don’t have any kids. It's that simple.” [Twitter, @American_Bridge, 7/26/24]
2021: Vance: “When You Go To The Polls In This Country As A Parent, You Should Have More Power -- You Should Have More Of An Ability To Speak Your Voice In Our Democratic Republic -- Than People Who Don't Have Kids.” According to ABC News, ‘“Speaking at a conservative organization called the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in 2021, Vance also argued that parents should have the ability to cast additional votes on behalf of their children. [...] ‘Let's give votes to all children in this country, but let's give control over those votes to the parents of those children. When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power -- you should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic -- than people who don't have kids,’ Vance argued. [...] ‘Let's face the consequences and the reality: If you don't have as much of an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn't get nearly the same voice,’ he said.” [ABC News, 7/26/24]
August 2021: VIDEO: Vance Attacked Kamala Harris For Not Having Kids And Said She Did Not Have “Skin In The Game.” According to Newsmax via YouTube, “VANCE: I was looking at the leaders of the Democrats and realized how many of the next-gen leaders of the Democrats, it’s Kamala Harris, it’s AOC, it’s a lot of folks like that, they’re not planning to have kids, they don’t have kids. And I noticed that, you know, not having children I think changes the way you think about the future of the country. If you don’t have skin in the game, you pointed to some of the studies that suggests that parents think about the future of the country in a different way. And I realized that we’re being ruled by a childless elite and it’s not just that they don’t have kids, of course a lot of people don’t have kids for different reasons, it’s that they’re proud of the fact they don’t have kids. They think it’s bad if you have kids.” [Newsmax via YouTube, 8/30/21]
July 2021: Vance Named Harris As An Example Of “Childless Cat Ladies Who Are Miserable At Their Own Lives.” According to USA Today, “In the days after Sen. JD Vance completed the Republican presidential ticket and Vice President Kamala Harris moved to the top spot on the Democratic ticket, a video of Vance implying Harris is a miserable, childless cat lady resurfaced online. Vance appeared on Fox News' ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ in July 2021 while he was running for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat. Carlson brought Vance on to talk about his stance on the ‘childless left,’ as Vance was ramping up his campaign for his first political term as Ohio's senator. The video shows Carlson welcome Vance on the show and asks him to explain his stance. ‘We are effectively run in this country … by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too,’ Vance answers. ‘It's just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.’” [USA Today, 7/23/24]
Harris Was The Stepmother To Cole And Ella Emhoff. According to NBC News, “Behind Vice President Kamala Harris’ persona as ‘Momala’ are her two stepchildren: Cole and Ella Emhoff. With Harris’ presidential campaign now in full swing, they too are stepping into the limelight. [NBC News, 7/27/24]
July 2024: Cole And Ella Emhoff’s Biological Mother Described Harris As A Co-Parent For The Last 10 Years. According to CNN, “The ex-wife of second gentleman Doug Emhoff on Wednesday defended Vice President Kamala Harris against sexist criticisms about her lack of biological children, calling them ‘baseless’ and expressing her gratitude for the presumptive Democratic nominee. ‘These are baseless attacks. For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I,’ Kerstin Emhoff said in a statement first provided to CNN. ‘She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective, and always present. I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.’” [CNN, 7/25/24]