Vice presidential candidate JD Vance agreed with a podcast host in 2020 that the “entire goal of the postmenopausal feminine” is to assist elevate grandchildren.
The comment came during an appearance on a podcast known as “The Portal,” hosted by Eric Weinstein, who on the time was the managing director of an funding agency based by billionaire Vance backer Peter Thiel. Vance was talking about how the mom of his spouse, Usha Vance, took a sabbatical for a 12 months to assist handle their new child son.
The podcast was resurfaced by Heartland Signal.
“You possibly can kind of see the impact it has on him to be round them, they spoil him, all of the traditional stuff that grandparents do to grandchildren,” Vance stated. “However it makes him a significantly better human being to have publicity to his grandparents.”
“That’s the entire goal of the postmenopausal feminine in concept,” Weinstein replied.
Vance agreed with the remarks in the midst of the assertion. Later, Weinstein stated that having grandparents readily available to assist with a new child was a “bizarre, unadvertised function of marrying an Indian girl.” Vance, whose in-laws immigrated from India, didn’t push again on that comment.
A spokesperson for the Ohio senator, who formally turned Donald Trump’s working mate finally month’s Republican Nationwide Conference, rejected claims that Vance had agreed with the statements.
“The media is dishonestly placing phrases in JD’s mouth — after all he doesn’t agree with what the host stated,” the spokesperson told the Daily Beast. “JD reacted to the primary a part of the host’s sentence, assuming he was going to say: ‘that’s the entire goal of spending time with grandparents.’”
“It’s a shame that the media is mendacity about JD as a substitute of holding Kamala Harris accountable for her insurance policies that brought on sky excessive costs for groceries and on a regular basis requirements, a catastrophe on the southern border, and a historic drug overdose epidemic.”
The remarks add one other hitch to Vance’s efforts to shore up assist for the Trump ticket earlier than the November election. Final month, previous feedback he’d made lumping Harris into his description of the left wing’s “childless cat women” who’re “depressing” with their lives brought on an uproar on the marketing campaign path.
Democratic organizers, nonetheless, embraced the designation and have used it to attract extra assist for her marketing campaign.
