Donald Trump’s nominee for Vice President, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), has become infamous for criticizing miserable “childless cat ladies.” In a resurfaced statement from 2021, Vance stated that the country is run by childless women who are unhappy due to their life choices. Alongside these comments, Vance has tried to position himself as an advocate for heterosexual parents with biological children.

Vance later tried to walk back his comments, which have been described as misogynistic and insulting, saying they were taken out of context. “The left has increasingly become explicitly anti-child and anti-family," he told Fox News' Trey Gowdy in July. “This is not a criticism and never was a criticism of everybody without children — that is a lie of the left. It’s a criticism of the increasingly anti-parent and anti-child attitude of the left."

Nonetheless, as Vance has voiced his concerns about people not having enough children, yet most recently skipped the vote in Congress to pass a $78 billion tax-cut package that would have expanded the child tax credit, a bill which would have benefited an estimated 16 million children nationwide. (Republicans who voted against it expressed concerns that it would disincentivize people from working.)

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In contrast is Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz, who as governor of Minnesota has been on a mission to make the state, in his words, "the best in the country to have kids." Walz enacted a law that enshrined “reproductive freedom” into Minnesota’s state constitution. He signed a paid family and medical leave law due to go into effect in 2026 that will give workers 12 weeks at 90 percent of their pay to care for a newborn or sick family member. He launched a $316 million grant program to increase pay for childcare workers and an additional $6 million to expand childcare businesses in Minnesota. In 2023, Walz expanded the state’s........

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