Why Democrats are Feasting on J.D. Vance’s Back Catalogue of Bloopers
J.D. Vance has thoughts and opinions—and being a millennial, many of those thoughts and opinions are recorded online, where they live in perpetuity.
That wouldn’t be a problem, normally, except the 39-year-old junior senator from Ohio is the Republican nominee for vice president. He is also turning out to be a gift to Democratic opposition researchers from Santa Monica to Brooklyn.
Ever since Donald Trump selected him as his running mate, Vance has faced harsh criticism for painting Democrats as a bunch of “childless cat ladies.” Tellingly, he made the callous comment in 2021. The clip had been available this whole time but it was unearthed and weaponized at the worst possible moment for the Republican Party.