GOP Senate candidates are just plain weird about women

Now that Ohio Sen. JD Vance has been elevated to the national stage as Donald Trump’s running mate, we’re getting a very good look at just how, well, weird Republicans are. Central to that weirdness is how overtly hostile they are to women.

Right now, Vance is garnering most of the headlines—and for good reason. His jibes about miserable “childless cat ladies” and working mothers who “shunt their kids into crap daycare so they can enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid labor force” barely scratch the surface of his anti-woman attitudes.

Vance’s extreme misogyny is turning out to be a drag on the GOP  ticket—and a big problem for Trump. But Vance isn’t the only one appearing on ballots this fall while expressing the idea that childless women have no worth and therefore shouldn’t have a say in society. There are plenty of GOP Senate candidates who have that same fundamental problem with women, and the spotlight is going to turn on them, too.

Take Nevada’s Sam Brown and his long history of extreme anti-abortion activism. He’s been trying desperately to walk that back, but he can’t walk away from the actions he’s taken and the deplorable things he’s said.