'Jesus did not have children': Ex-Ohio rep slams Trump and Vance’s 'deeply insecure' messaging

Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) slammed his fellow Ohioan leader — Republican vice presidential nominee and Senator JD Vance (R-OH) — and Donald Trump on Thursday over the pair's "radical" messaging, emphasizing that it proves the two are "deeply insecure."

According to USA Today, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed Vance in 2021 "about his stance on the 'childless left,' as Vance was ramping up his campaign for his first political term as Ohio's senator."

Asking the then-Senate hopeful to elaborate on his view, Vance replied: "We are effectively run in this country … by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too. It's just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children."

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Since the clip resurfaced earlier this week, even conservative women, according to Newsweek, have criticized the GOP vice presidential nominee for his stance.

Speaking to Ryan, MSNBC's Chris Jansing noted, however, some "Republicans have been pretty quiet about this. We know what happened in 2020. We know how women, how suburban women went away from Donald Trump. Frankly, as I went from battleground state to battleground state and talked to them, they just didn't like the way he talked. I wonder how Republicans are feeling about this today?"

The former congressman replied, "Well, you see an aging and more and more incoherent Donald Trump, which puts the focus on his vice presidential candidate, you know, it's bad enough that the President Trump is supporting all the 2025 initiatives and all of that, but when you see his diet, his health, his incoherence — he's the oldest candidate to ever run for president. How old he would be in four years, there's a good chance JD Vance would be president of the United States."

Ryan continued, "So you tell all the people who own cats and the women who don't have children, and all the people with stepchildren, that JD Vance could potentially be the next president of the United States, you're going to see a huge backlash. And I think — not to be glib about this — but when you look at the Republican Party, you look at the evangelicals — Jesus did not have children. Right? So you're basically saying that the founder of the Christian faith, the inspiration for the Christian faith never had any children, and JD Vance would think this way, too, about that?"

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The ex-Democratic leader emphasized, "I just think it's important for everybody to take a step back and see how radical these guys are, and what they would want to do. And it comes from a deep insecurity that JD Vance has, a deep insecurity that Donald Trump has, and what do people who are deeply insecure do? They try to control everybody else, and that's what we're seeing here."

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