As quickly as Donald Trump introduced J.D. Vance as his operating mate within the 2024 election, the Ohio senator started dealing with criticism for his previous controversial feedback and moments.
In July, a photograph of the VP choose sporting a shirt depicting the usS.R. flag made the rounds on social media websites.
Critics known as out Vance for donning the communist image, although some defended him – because it was solely a part of a Halloween get together.
Vance’s 2021 “childless cat girls” feedback throughout his interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox Information additionally resurfaced.
On the time, he used the label to explain girls with out organic kids – together with Kamala Harris – and defined the federal government was being spearheaded by individuals who have been “depressing at their very own lives and the alternatives that they’ve made, and they also need to make the remainder of the nation depressing too”.
Celebrities, together with Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Aniston, lambasted Vance over his feedback.
Nevertheless, he defended himself when he spoke with Megyn Kelly on the The Megyn Kelly Present podcast.
He stated: “Clearly, it was a sarcastic remark. I’ve bought nothing in opposition to cats.”
Vance additionally stated social media ought to be blamed “for focusing a lot on the sarcasm and never on the substance of what I really stated”.
His different resurfaced controversial feedback embody his suggestion to provide individuals with kids extra voting rights and his stance on the Russia-Ukraine battle.