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BumRushDaShow

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Sun Sep 22, 2024, 12:08 PM Sep 22

Hillary Clinton says Vance's child care comments are 'not in touch' with most Americans' lives

Source: CNN Politics

Updated 11:00 AM EDT, Sun September 22, 2024


CNN — Hillary Clinton has criticized Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance for suggesting that families could ease the financial burden of child care by tapping grandparents for more help, saying that the Ohio senator is “just not in touch with what goes on in the lives and the working careers of the vast majority of Americans.”

“It’s almost impossible to understand his worldview. Where is he coming from? Where does he get these ideas?” the former secretary of state said in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that aired Sunday as she promotes her new book, “Something Lost, Something Gained.”

Clinton described the comments Vance made about child care in a recent interview with conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, as well as his recently unearthed 2021 remark about the United States being led by “childless cat ladies,” as the latest example of decades of opposition from Republicans in Washington to child care policy proposals that would provide government assistance to working families. “It sounds to me like these are maybe personally connected to his own background, but also, it’s feeding into that same ideology: ‘Stand on your own. You’re a rugged individualist,’” she said.

But “families need support,” and relatives aren’t always nearby and available, Clinton said. “I’m a grandparent. I’m also a very active person. I love being with my grandchildren, but I also have interests of my own,” she said. “And so, it’s not either-or. Obviously, I want to help my daughter and son-in-law with these three wonderful little kids. But they’re very active. They go to work. They need child care support, especially when the children were very young.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/hillary-clinton-jd-vance-child-care/index.html

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Hillary Clinton says Vance's child care comments are 'not in touch' with most Americans' lives (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 22 OP
Hillary lives in the 21st century; Vance the 19th. twodogsbarking Sep 22 #1
Out of touch? That's like saying DoneOld is out of touch with the people of Outer Mongolia. He probably thinks it's Wonder Why Sep 22 #2

Wonder Why

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2. Out of touch? That's like saying DoneOld is out of touch with the people of Outer Mongolia. He probably thinks it's
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 02:38 PM
Sep 22

about the BBQ he thinks they all eat and couldn't find which planet they live on.

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