Donald Trump's running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has a long history of calling childless Americans "sociopaths," according to a new analysis.
CNN uncovered Tuesday multiple moments when Trump's running mate — facing a severe backlash for his "childless cat lady" comment — accused people without children of being psychotic.
"How many of the insane replies to this tweet are from people without children?" Vance wrote in 2021. “Our country’s low birth rates have made many elites sociopaths."
Vance called childless Americans “more sociopathic” and less “less mentally stable" on a conservative podcast in November 2020, CNN reports.
“The people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don’t have kids at home," Vance said on the Chris Buskirk show. "I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less, less mentally stable.”
Senate campaign emails from August 2021 warned against “radical childless leaders in this country" who wanted to inflict their own misery on others.
"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," the email reads.
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Vance spokesperson Taylor Van Kirk called the media obsessed in response to CNN's request for comment.
“As [Senator Vance] has clearly stated, he was talking about politicians on the left who support policies that are explicitly anti-child and anti-family," Van Kirk told CNN. "The media can obsess over it all they want, but he’s not going to back down when it comes to advocating for policies that protect parental rights and encourage people to have more kids.”
Vance in 2021 argued the comments were not misogynistic because his policies help "working women, too," CNN reports.
Two years earlier, in a 2019 speech, Vance bemoaned declining fertility.
"I would say that we should care about declining fertility, not just because it’s bad for our economy," Vance said. "We think babies are good and we think babies are good because we’re not sociopaths.”
Vance echoed his notorious cat lady comment on Twitter in September 2021, writing that they "must be stopped."
