Amid all the talk about JD Vance’s alleged weirdness, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer defends weird in her book True Gretch where she previously came out as weird herself.
Republican Vice President nominee JD Vance, currently serving as a U.S. senator for Ohio, was recently disparaged as weird by several national commentators for his views on marriage, women and childbearing that he shared in a 2020 speech.
Vance remarked that Democrats in control were “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
He continued: “It’s just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC. The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does that make any sense, when we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
The resurfaced remarks elicited numerous comments about weirdness from the press and several lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, W. Va., an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats.
“That truly is just a weird position to take,” Manchin told the Associated Press. “I’ve never heard that before. It was very weird. I couldn’t believe it.”
In her July 30 speech in Atlanta, Harris asked her audience if they thought that “some of the stuff” said by Trump and Vance “to be plain weird.”
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According to Newsweek, Vance spokesperson Taylor Van Kirk replied: “Once again, the leftwing media have twisted Senator Vance’s words and spun up a false narrative about his position on the issues. As he has clearly stated, he was talking about politicians on the left who support policies that are explicitly anti-child and anti-family.”
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Van Kirk added; “”The media can obsess over it all they want, but he’s not going to back down when it comes to advocating for policies that protect parental rights and encourage people to have more kids.”
Whitmer, co-chair of Vice President Kamala Harris’ current presidential bill and once considered a frontrunner to be Harris’ VP running mate, is no fan of Vance, although she has expressed admiration for his autobiographical book Hillbilly Elegy. But she told Fox News that Vance has betrayed his blue collar roots. to become former President Donald Trump’s running mate.
Her remarks prompted Vance to respond in a statement: “[C]areer politicians like Gretchen Whitmer can lie about me all they want, but I’m still always going to put American workers and families first and foremost because I’ll never forget where I came from.”
Vance continued: “It’s career politicians like her who support the radical Kamala-Biden agenda to leave our southern border wide open, strangle American energy, kill the automobile industry with their electric vehicle mandates, and drive up the cost of living through inflationary spending who clearly have forgotten about the people she’s supposed to be representing,”
In her True Gretch chapter titled Be a Happy Warrior, she advises readers “to embrace who you are, no matter what others might think or say. We all have our quirks and special traits, and accepting them in yourself will make your path through the world smoother,” she wrote.