A series of recent videos in which Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance mocked childless adults resurfaced on social media this week, sparking outrage among those on both sides of the political aisle. 

In one video from 2021, Vance told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that “childless cat ladies” are running the country. He suggested childless people are “miserable at their own lives [and] the choices that they made” and they desire to “make the rest of the country miserable, too.”