Ohio Senator and Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance’s past comments about women are resurfacing from a 2020 podcast interview in which he and the host discussed “the postmenopausal female.”
In an episode of The Portal podcast released in April 2020, he agreed with the host that the “whole purpose” of women who have been through menopause is to raise their grandchildren.
A clip from the podcast has been going viral on social media this week.
When host Eric Weinstein says, “That’s the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female, in theory,” Vance can be heard replying, “Yes.”
At another point during the podcast, the two discussed how the mother of Vance’s wife, Usha, lived with the couple for a year after their first son was born. Vance also co-signed Weinstein’s notion that living with the grandmother was a “weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman.”
The Ohio Senator noted that his mother-in-law was a biology professor who took a year off to help raise the child.
“It’s just one of these things that…this is what you do,” Vance said.
“Why didn’t she just keep her job, give us part of the wages to pay somebody else to do it, right? Because that is the thing that the hyper-liberalized economics wants you to do,” Vance said. “The economic logic of always prioritizing paid wage labor over other forms of contributing to a society is, to me, it’s actually a consequence of a sort of fundamental liberalism that is ultimately going to unwind and collapse upon itself.”
In a statement to Newsweek, Vance’s spokeswoman, Taylor Van Kirk, said he was only agreeing with the host that spending time with grandparents is good for kids.
It’s a disgrace that the media is lying about JD instead of holding Kamala Harris accountable for her policies that caused sky high prices for groceries and everyday necessities, a disaster at the southern border, and a historic drug overdose epidemic,” Van Kirk said, according to the news outlet.