On Friday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) posted a video to X, formerly known as Twitter, on GOP VP Nominee Sen. JD Vance's (R-OH) proposed policy to limit votes for childless adults.
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00:00Hey, Brian Schatz from Hawaii here.
00:02Chris Murphy from Connecticut.
00:03This is not our living room, but we're using this fake living room to talk to you about
00:09a super weird idea from J.D. Vance.
00:13Yeah, it's not.
00:14I mean, it's quite weird, but it's also offensive.
00:16J.D. Vance actually said that people with children should be assigned more votes than
00:22people without children, and that if you have a kid, you get like an extra vote, but then
00:26you get to control that vote until they turn 18.
00:30It's weird, and it's, I don't know what to say.
00:34It's just bananas.
00:35But you have to take it seriously, because it stands in context, right?
00:41Republicans are continuing to insist that government should tell you how to live your
00:46life.
00:47Yeah, they mean this.
00:48They really do.
00:49Blake Masters this morning just said, yeah, I agree with that.
00:51If you don't have children, if you've lost children, if you're unable to conceive children,
00:57if you're 18 and you have not yet started a family, they are saying, your vote will
01:02count less.
01:03It's mean.
01:04It's sort of unbelievable how judgmental the Republican Party has become.
01:10If you choose to have children, you should be able to participate in our democracy.
01:14If you choose not to have children, you should be able to participate in our democracy.
01:19But Republicans have just decided that they're going to tell you how to run your life.
01:23They're going to tell women when they can have children.
01:25They're going to tell you if you have children or if you don't have children, how much your
01:29vote matters.
01:31The sort of dictates from Republicans to people in their personal lives is just pretty unreal.
01:37Take it seriously and fight back.