‘No evidence': MSNBC host pans Vance rant that Dems ‘brainwash children'
New audio has surfaced ofJ.D. Vance accusing childless Democrats of trying to “brainwash children,” and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace is having none of it.
Vance “has spent the last few years saying some of the weirdest most offensive and off-putting things,” Wallace said during her Friday afternoon broadcast, including derogatory comments attacking Democratic leadership as “a bunch of childless cat ladies.”
In a newly resurfaced comment from a 2021 Breitbart radio interview, Vance went on a rant accusing Democratic leaders without biological offspring of trying to brainwash children.
“So many of their next generation leaders – you know, the Corey Bookers, the Kamala Harrises – they don't have kids, and so there's this weird way where they want to take our kids and brainwash them so that their ideas continue to exist,” Vance said. “Parents get to raise their children, families get to raise their children, not the state, not the leaders of the left. If you want to brainwash children: have your own kids to brainwash. Leave your hands off mine.”
As the audio cut off, Wallace barely missed a beat.
“There no evidence any of that is true,” Wallace quipped.
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She then laid into the defense Vance made in an interview with Megyn Kelly – that his comments were sarcastic and taken out of context – as his “seeming commitment to keep digging in his repeated attacks on the women of this country.”
“You know, not working,” Wallace said. “The idea that people who haven't had children don't have rewarding lives is still offensive to everyone, even those of us who don't have kids.”
The backlash to Vance has been a boon to Harris’ campaign, as Democratic women raised more than $1 million dollars in a record-breaking Zoom fundraiser that amassed more than 136,000 participants.
Watch the clip below or at this link.