The View co-host Ana Navarro attacked 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for being “pretty weird.”
Navarro’s comments came on Monday after numerous supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris‘s campaign made the same attack line.
During a panel discussion about Harris, Navarro praised Harris for having a sense of humor, energy, enthusiasm, and joyfulness. She contrasted the vice president’s personality with the Trump-Vance campaign.
“On the other side, you’ve got these weird men,” she said. “Because they’re weird, and don’t complain that we’re calling you ‘weird’ because you’ve attacked her on her dating history.”
Navarro added, “You have called her a ‘DEI hire.’ You’ve said everything she’s got is because of her gender and her skin color. You’ve called her all sorts of names, so I think we’re being really kind and gracious by just calling you ‘weird.’ And frankly, J.D. Vance, Just Dumb Vance, is pretty weird.”
The View co-host shared that she spent last Thursday at the vice president’s residence.
Navarro explained that she felt Vance had numerous opportunities to “clean up” his previous “childless cat ladies” comments that he had made in a 2021 Fox News interview but that he “hasn’t been able to.”
“He means it because that’s his intention,” she ranted. “He has said more than once that he thinks people without children, that that’s bad and must be punished. And people with children must be rewarded. He wants people with children to have more voting rights. He wants people with children to pay less taxes.”
The View co-host continued her outrage at Vance’s comments by saying, “But here’s what I want to tell him. There are two types of women in this world: There are women who have no children because they are free to choose so, and there are women, like me, who have no children because we couldn’t. How dare you try to tell me that I am lesser than! How dare you tell me that I have less rights and less voting rights than others?”
“So, you are weird,” she stated.
Vance had followed up on his television interview comments in an Intercollegiate Studies Institute speech in 2021 to clarify his statements, saying he was not referring to people who could not have children for complicated biological reasons.
“A lot of people are unable to have kids for very complicated and important reasons. There are good friends of mine who struggled to find the right girl, find the right guy, and there are people, of course, for biological reasons, medical reasons that can’t have children. The target of these remarks is not them. … Let’s set them to the side,” Vance said.
Co-host Sara Haines added that Vance has “tried to walk back” his comments and then she suggested that men are “capable too of reproducing.”
“You are eliminating the most feminist option we have at this point, which is the power to choose. There are people that proudly and robustly live big lives, and we don’t ask that of men. They’re capable too of reproducing. We are not defined by our ovaries, and if we choose not to have kids, we respect that, and we cheer that on because we get to live in a time where you can do that,” she said as the audience applauded.
Whoopi Goldberg closed the segment with a warning for “Republican men” by saying that they should be paying “really close attention” to how they “pissed these women off” with their comments.
Navarro’s claim that Vance is “weird” has become a common talking point among Harris campaign supporters on various talk shows.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said that the Trump campaign’s “way they talk to people, the way they address people — it is bizarre. It’s weird.”
On CNN, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that he doesn’t believe Harris will pick a vice presidential running mate as “weird and creepy as J.D. Vance.”
Vance was asked about this accusation of Democrats labeling him as “weird” and whether his feelings were hurt.
“No, not at all,” Vance said in an interview on Fox News on Sunday. “It doesn’t hurt my feelings.”
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The Ohio senator added a social media post of Harris listing her pronouns during a CNN town hall and the message on the post said, “JD Vance is weird.”
The former president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., also shared a post mocking Harris in a video with drag queens and a caption that referred to the “weird” accusation.
