2024-07-26 02:53:27
When Donald Trump selected Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate at the Republican convention last week, he earned a standing ovation. The young conservative politician was supposed to help Trump win the votes of the working class and thereby strengthen his voter base at a time when President Joe Biden’s preferences were rapidly falling and Trump’s was rising after the failed assassination attempt.
Foreign media point out that some Republicans, due to the views of JD Vance, no longer seem like a suitable choice for the November elections. Vance, like Trump, wants to stop immigration and has repeatedly spoken of the need for mass deportations from the United States. He is in favor of ending military aid to Ukraine and supports the ex-president’s claim that the 2020 election, in which Trump lost, was rigged.
In June, after the parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom, when left-wing Labor returned to power after 14 years, he then declared that Britain had become the first Islamist country with nuclear weapons.
Especially when it comes to women’s rights, she is even more conservative and right-wing than ex-president Trump. On Tuesday, a three-year-old Fox News interview began circulating online in which Vance criticizes the Biden administration because he says the country is run by a group of cat ladies who don’t have biological children and therefore don’t really care about the country’s future.
“They are unhappy with their own lives and the decisions they have made, so they want the rest of the country to be unhappy as well,” he added. He specifically mentioned Biden’s Vice President Harris, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg or Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Harris is all but certain to become the new Democratic nominee in August after Biden dropped out of the race for the White House over the weekend under pressure from his party.
At the same time, Buttigieg and his husband adopted newborn twins more than a month before the aforementioned interview with Fox News, and Harris became a stepmother to two teenagers in 2014 when she married her current husband, Douglas Emhoff, AP reports. For People magazine, the vice president described that her stepchildren nickname her “Mamala”, which she is very happy about.
Expressions of this type are not unique to Vance. In 2021, he came up with the idea of allowing parents to vote for their children, as they should have more influence than the childless. Speaking at the conservative nonprofit Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Virginia, he said people who don’t have children “are not investing as much in the future of the country.”
Abortion ban
This indicates that the Trump-Vance couple will probably have a big problem in November to get the votes of women, as the newspaper Politico points out, for example. Especially at a time when the Supreme Court decision of 2022, which abolished the right to artificial termination of pregnancy, is still reverberating in the United States. This happened thanks to the judges that Trump nominated there for this very purpose when he was president.
Vance opposes abortion and has proposed a federal ban on abortion with no exceptions — even in cases of rape or incest. He even argued that federal measures should be taken to prevent women seeking abortions from traveling from states where abortion is illegal to states that allow it. He has now toned down his remarks to match Trump’s more moderate stance.
It’s not just about abortion. Some of Vance’s views are causing controversy even for a conservative politician. For example, he suggested that women living in abusive marriages should stay married for the sake of the children.
In 2021, he declared that ending marriages, even those where violence may have occurred, is selfish. “It’s one of the great tricks the sexual revolution has pulled on the American population. To make it as easy for people to change husbands as they change underwear,” he said.
Voices of American women
But Vance’s campaign rejects criticism that it holds sexist positions. “It is well known that he has achieved success in life in large part due to the influence of strong female role models such as his grandmother,” spokeswoman Taylor Van Kirk commented.
In 2020, Trump lost to Biden by fifteen percentage points among women. More women than men turned out for Congress two years later, with turnout particularly high in some key states like Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which are likely to decide this year’s election as well. These are the so-called swing states, where the chances of Democrats and Republicans are equal in the long term, and thus tend to be decisive for the outcome of the elections. Twelve states also elected female governors this year, a record number. In this year’s elections, Trump could be helped to win if more women voted for him than four years ago.
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