Former President Donald Trump was confronted by ABC News' Rachel Scott on the controversial attacks made by his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), on childless women — and spent several minutes trying to spin the comments by ranting about families.
"Senator J.D. Vance is your running mate," said Scott. "He's had a lot of controversy lately and I want to read you a few things that he has said in the past. He said the Democrats running the country are 'a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they've made. And so they don't, they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.'"
She went on, "Did you know that he had these views about people who do not have children before you picked him to be your running mate, and do you agree with him?"
"No, this he is very family-oriented and he thinks families a great thing," said Trump. "That doesn't mean he thinks that if you don't have a family, it's not. I know people with families. I know people with great families and I know people with very troubled families.
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"And I also know people with no families that didn't meet the right person. Things happen, you go through life, you don't meet the right person, not just talking to families here and some of those people that don't have children ... he strongly believes in family, but I know people with great families."
"My interpretation, you'll have to ask him actually, but my interpretation is he's strongly family-oriented, but that doesn't mean you don't have a family, there's something wrong with this," he continued.
"One of the bedrock principles of American life is one person, one vote," said Scott. "Senator J.D. Vance has suggested that someone who has children should have more votes than a person who does not have children. I just want to be clear here. Is that the position of your campaign?"
"Well no, but it's not something I've ever heard before," said Trump. "I can tell you this right now. You have illegal aliens coming into our country in many from prisons and many from mental institutions. And they want to give them votes. I don't think they should have votes."
