The Republican vice-presidential nominee also defended Donald Trump’s abortion policies.
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Senator JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, during a rally in Detroit last week.
In three interviews broadcast on Sunday morning, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, repeated his description of Democrats as “anti-family,” defended former President Donald J. Trump’s abortion policies and suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris was racist.
Mr. Vance — who has been criticized for past comments in which he disparaged “childless cat ladies” and suggested that parents “should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic than people who don’t have kids” — said that his disdain was for Democrats’ policies, not the makeup of their families. He added that the idea of giving children the right to vote but letting their parents have control of the votes, which he floated in 2021, had been a “thought experiment” that he hadn’t really meant.
“I’m pro-family,” he said on CNN. “I want us to have more families. And obviously sometimes it doesn’t work out, sometimes for medical reasons, sometimes because you don’t meet the right person. But the point is that our country has become anti-family in its public policy.”
He told ABC News of the idea of giving parents more votes through their children, “If it was a policy proposal, I would have made the policy proposal in my two years in the United States Senate.”
In all three interviews, with CNN, ABC News and CBS News, Mr. Vance said that he supported expanding the child tax credit and enacting protections against surprise medical bills for people who see out-of-network providers for childbirth.
President Biden and congressional Democrats expanded the child tax credit in 2021 as a pandemic relief measure and tried to make the expansion permanent, but congressional Republicans (and one Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia) blocked it, and the extension expired. Ms. Harris wants to restore it, and Mr. Vance recently missed a Senate vote, which he called a “show vote” on Sunday, to do so.
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