‘No question’ JD Vance has a problem with women, Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan says

After two weeks of quibbling over “childless cat ladies”, one Republican Senate candidate is ready to say it: the top of his party’s ticket hasa problem with women.

Donald Trump and JD Vance head into August beset by a number of problems: the sudden withdrawal of Trump’s main opponent, Joe Biden, and the elevation of Kamala Harris as the new Democratic nominee, for starters. But through the end of July, in the days following the GOP convention in Milwaukee, much of the coverage surrounding the Republican ticket has concerned past comments made by Vance, the vice presidential nominee.

In those comments, some made quite recently before he officially entered political life, Vance repeatedly railed against “childless” women who supposedly run America (and particularly, he argued, the Democratic Party).

He also made insulting comments aimed at all Americans without children for any reason, arguing that they had no “stake” — or less of one — in the country’s future. Finally, he reasoned, Americans with children should therefore be granted more votes at the ballot box.

Vance’s remarks have caused headaches for Republicans on Capitol Hill who have been pressed by reporters to say whether they agree with him, but one Republican who has worked for years to distance himself from the MAGA wing was happy to stick the knife in deeper. Larry Hogan, the former two-term governor of Maryland who’s running a competitive race for the state’s Senate seat this fall, spoke to The Independent about Vance’s comments while on the campaign trail Sunday.

Regarding Vance and Trump, the governor was asked: “Do you think they have a problem with women, just in general?”

“Oh, there’s no question about that,” Hogan responded. “Look, I overperformed