J.D. Vance Made the Mistake of Going After a Lesbian Labor Leader

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J.D. Vance Made the Mistake of Going After a ******** Labor Leader

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Bad Press Tour keeps on rolling this week, as the *********** vice presidential hopeful faces scrutiny over 2021 comments he made bashing teachers without biological children, including ********* Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten.

Already grappling with widespread backlash over another 2021 jab calling Democratic politicians and voters

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Vance now must answer more questions about further comments he made during an October 2021 political event for the

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. “So many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids trying to brainwash the minds of our children. That really disorients me and disturbs me,” Vance said during the event. “Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers’ union in the country, she doesn’t have a single child. If she wants to brainwash and ******** the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the ***** alone.”

Weingarten is a ********, and

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to her wife, Liz Margolies, in 2007. Vance’s disparaging remarks, however, were also inaccurate: Weingarten, believed to be the

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of a major U.S. labor union, is stepmother to Margolies’ biological children, and described herself as a “mother by marriage” last year when subjected to

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by Vance’s GOP colleague, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Still, Vance doubled down on, and falsely reframed, his own remarks while being interviewed on the tarmac outside the Trump-Vance campaign jet this week, as

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reported. “I didn’t criticize Randi Weingarten for not having kids, I criticized her for wanting to brainwash mine,” Vance claimed. Meanwhile, Weingarten responded in

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, calling his comments “nonsensical” and “******.”

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A Viral Image Appears to Show Virulently Anti-LGBTQ\+ VP Candidate J.D. Vance in Drag

Content creator and podcast host Matt Bernstein posted the image to social media over the weekend.

Vance has not specifically stated in what way he believes Weingarten is “brainwashing” his children. His statement at the Center for ********** Virtue event was made in the general context of “the ideology of the left,” which Vance characterized as “control[ling] what our children learn.” Similarly vague, yet apocalyptic, rhetoric about Weingarten and the AFT has proliferated on the right over the last several years. In a 2022 interview, former Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Weingarten “the most dangerous person in the world” and alleged that teachers’ unions are “the most likely to take this republic down.” Other *********** lines of ******* have included the accusation that Weingarten and the AFT puppeteered the U.S.’ COVID-19 policy, which

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and called “wild allegations.”

It’s still not clear what the *********** Party despises so much about Weingarten in particular, though being a ******** who supports public education may be reason enough. Weingarten has been a

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of ************* “school choice” initiatives and charter voucher programs, which have become a major part of the GOP policy platform — along with nationwide campaigns to limit

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. Vance’s comments about Weingarten’s family and ******** “childless cat ladies,” meanwhile, underscore more anxieties within his party: Republicans are

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than ever before, yet identical attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris’ family — i.e., her stepchildren with husband Doug Emhoff — have largely

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“I am blessed to be a mom by marriage, but it’s irrelevant to whether any of us care about children,” Weingarten wrote in an official

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on Wednesday. “This week, as teachers are digging into their pockets to pay for school supplies and welcoming kids and parents into their classrooms, we should all be celebrating the hope and promise of a new school year, not trashing it with ******, ridiculous comments like Vance’s.”

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