JD Vance attacks working women as being ‘on path to misery’ in unearthed audio

In a resurfaced podcast interview from September 2021, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said that professional women “choose a path to misery” by prioritizing their careers over having children

Donald Trump’s running mate also claimed the masculinity of men in America is “suppressed”, and attacked immigrants and Democratic Rep Ilhan Omar.

The Guardian reported that the now-Ohio senator said of women, such as his Yale Law School classmates, that “pursuing racial or gender equity is like the value system that gives their life meaning … [but] they all find that that value systemleads to misery”.

Of Omar, he said that the lawmaker had shown “ingratitude” to America, and that she “would be living in a craphole” if she had not moved to the US from Somalia as a refugee.

Vance made the remarks back on September 20, 2021 on an episode of the Moment of Truth podcast run by American Moment – a conservative organization of which the senator is a board member emeritus for the group – Media Matters reported.

American Moment is a partner for Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-led plan to provide staffing and policy priorities for a second Trump administration.

This is the latest example of Vance’s previous on-the-record comments, particularly about women, coming back to haunt him since he was chosen as Trump’s running mate.

He has previously called Democratic leaders“childless cat ladies” and lashed out at the president of the teachers’ union for not having“some of her own” children. The senator has since tried to address some of his previous comments by calling them “sarcasm”.

In the Moment of Truth recording, in which Vance is speaking with American Moment’s president and founder, Saurabh Sharma, and its COO Nick