Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance on Sunday defended his 2021 comments about allocating more votes to people with children, saying they were a “thought experiment.”In a widely circulated video clip from a 2021 speech he gave to a conservative organization called the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Vance suggested giving more votes to people with children than to people who have none.
“Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children,” Vance said in his 2021 speech.
“And I said, well, if we’re going to give the rights to the children, then we should actually just allow the parents to cast those votes.
She said her husband’s “quip” was an effort to bring attention to U.S. policies that fall short of providing the support families need.
What is it about our leadership and the way that they think about the world that makes it so hard sometimes for parents?’” she added.
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