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JD Vance, the Republican running for vice president, upheld his previous remarks on women, childless families, and the Trump campaign’s plans to expel undocumented immigrants in a comprehensive conversation with “This Week” co-host Jonathan Karl, set to air in full on Sunday morning.

In light of the narrowing race due to Vice President Kamala Harris leading the Democratic ticket, the Ohio senator stressed that he and Trump are “highly confident” in their election prospects.

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is interviewed by ABC News’ Jon Karl on Aug. 10, 2024.
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“I believe we will emerge victorious. I also believe that we must exert maximum effort for the remainder of the election to sway American voters in our favor,” Vance expressed to Karl. “That’s the crux of the matter.”

Vance expands on ‘pro-family’ perspectives

The senator has faced criticism for his repeated statements regarding individuals without children, including remarks made during an interview in July 2021 with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson where Vance labeled prominent Democrats like Harris as “childless cat ladies.”

In a speech to a conservative audience at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute prior to that interview, Vance also proposed that parents with children should receive additional voting privileges.

“While the Democrats are considering granting voting rights to 16-year-olds, I propose a different approach,” Vance stated in his speech. “Let’s allocate votes to all children in the country, but let’s entrust the control of those votes to the parents of those children. When you, as a parent, cast your ballot in this nation, you should wield greater influence.”

Vance clarified to Karl that his concept was a “theoretical exercise” in response to Democratic suggestions for younger voters, rather than a policy position.

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“Do I rue my words? I regret how the media and the Kamala Harris campaign have, frankly, twisted my statements,” he stated. “They have misrepresented what I said as a policy proposal that I never advocated for. … I simply expressed a desire for a more pro-family approach, and that remains my stance.”

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Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is interviewed by ABC News’ Jon Karl on Aug. Vance included that there are “policy positions behind my perspective that the nation should become more pro-family.” He proceeded to discuss the economic challenges that families are encountering, mentioning the increased expenses of goods, escalating medical bills, and other expenditures.

The lawmaker indicated that he and Trump have a blueprint to reduce the costs of housing and food but did not disclose specifics during the conversation.

Trump stated in an interview with Fox News last week that his strategy to lower costs was, “We’re gonna drill, baby, drill.”

Trump has also promoted more duties and tax reductions as components of his economic strategies.

Vance replied to the mass expulsion proposal by saying, ‘Let’s initiate with 1 million.’

The senator brought up the ongoing migrant crisis and once again held responsible Harris and the policies of the Biden administration, such as ending “Remain in Mexico.”

When questioned about how he and Trump would accomplish the stated objective of mass deporting up to 20 million immigrants – a suggestion that specialists previously informed ABC News would be a “nightmare” — Vance stated they would adopt a “sequential approach.”

“I mean do you go knock on doors and ask people for their papers? What do you do,” Karl inquired.

“You start with what’s achievable,” Vance replied. “I think that if you deport a lot of violent criminals and frankly if you make it harder to hire illegal labor, which undercuts the wages of American workers, I think you go a lot of the way to solving the illegal immigration problem.”

“I think it’s interesting that individuals focus on, well, how do you deport 18 million people? Let’s start with 1 million. That’s where Kamala Harris has failed. And then we can go from there,” Vance stated.

Vance is in concurrence with Trump that VP selections do not matter to most voters.

During an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago last month, and shortly after Trump revealed Vance as his running mate, the former president attracted attention when questioned about whether Vance would be prepared to be president “on Day 1” if necessary.

“You can have a vice president who’s exceptional in every aspect, and I believe JD is, I think that all of them would’ve been, but you’re not voting that way. You’re voting for the president. Trump stated that you are voting for him, not specifying if Vance will be prepared on “Day 1.”

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In the discussion with ABC News, Vance concurred with Trump’s perspective.

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance greet each other at a campaign rally, on July 27, 2024, in St. Cloud, Minn.
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“People are casting their votes for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, not for JD or Tim Walz,” he remarked. “I also believe that he’s correct in stating that the politics of this issue are not extremely significant.”

Nonetheless, Vance emphasized that he is “absolutely” certain that Trump is self-assured in his ability to assume the role of commander in chief if necessary.

“What I infer from his actions, as he made it the central focus of his vetting process, is, ‘Do I believe this individual is capable of assuming the presidency on day one if, God forbid, an emergency occurs? Absolutely,'” Vance expressed.

Vance repeats inaccurate statements about Tim Walz’s policies

At a rally in Montana on Friday evening, Trump propagated falsehoods about Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz’s policies regarding transgender youth, alleging that the Minnesota governor endorsed “a law enabling the state to take children to alter their gender.”

Walz has signed laws aimed at safeguarding the rights of transgender individuals to receive gender-affirming care, which includes gender-affirming surgeries as well as services like therapy and non-surgical medical procedures such as hormone therapy and puberty suppressants. The law does not permit what Trump asserted.

Vance mentioned that he did not watch the late-night rally completely but reiterated some of those false claims in the conversation with Karl, stating that Walz “backed taking children from their parents if the parents do not approve of gender reassignment.”

He referenced Walz’s recent statement at a rally accusing Republicans of not “minding their own business.”

PHOTO: Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance on  Aug. 6, 2024, in Philadelphia | Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, Aug. 6, 2024.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance listens to a question at a campaign event, Aug. 6, 2024, in Philadelphia | Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, is pictured at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Aug. “One method of minding your own business, Jon, is refraining from attempting to take my children away from me … if I hold different perspectives than you.”

Karl resisted, dismissing the “kidnapping” description as “absurd.”

The April 2023 legislation that Walz approved following other states restricting or outlawing access to gender-affirming treatment has been misrepresented by Republicans.

The Minnesota statute safeguards patients who travel to the state to receive gender-affirming medical care, even if those patients reside in a state where such treatment is prohibited. The law also explicitly permits the state’s courts to assume “temporary emergency jurisdiction” in cross-state child custody disputes where a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming care and is in Minnesota to receive it.

The head of LGBTQ+ advocacy group OutFront informed The Washington Post that under the statute, courts can resolve parental disagreements over whether their child should receive this care, but it does not result in the parent opposing such care losing custody of their child.

Vance counters white supremacist Trump once dined with who recently insulted his wife’s race

Karl also inquired Vance about a racist assault against his wife, Usha, from white nationalist live-streamer, Nick Fuentes, who Trump dined with in November 2022.

In a recent live stream, Fuentes remarked, “What sort of man marries somebody named Usha? Clearly, he doesn’t value his racial identity.”

“My response to these individuals attacking my wife is, she’s beautiful, she’s intelligent. What kind of man marries Usha? A very intelligent man and very fortunate man,” Vance said of his wife during the ABC News interview. “If these individuals want to target me or criticize my perspectives, my policy perspectives, [or] my personality, come after me. But don’t target my wife. She’s out of your league.”

Trump encountered significant backlash for dining with Fuentes, alongside rapper Ye (previously Kanye West) back in November 2022 at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. At the time, Trump stated he did not know who Fuentes was and that Ye had brought him to the dinner. In an exclusive statement provided to Fox News Digital, Trump stated, “I was unaware of his opinions, and they were not expressed during our brief dinner, or else it would not have been accepted.”

However, the former president has not disavowed Fuentes’ white nationalist perspectives beyond that, or the recent remarks about Usha Vance.

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During the interview, Vance argued that Trump had “delivered many condemnations,” and did not question the former president’s dinner with Fuentes.

“One aspect I admire about Donald Trump, Jon, is that he will actually converse with anyone. However, engaging in a conversation with someone does not imply endorsing their beliefs,” Vance remarked, adding that Trump has been intimate and amicable with his family.

ABC News’ Quinn Scanlan contributed to this report.

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