Takeaways from JD Vance's interview with Joe Rogan
In an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan, Sen. JD Vance suggested he and Donald Trump can win the "normal gay guy vote."
In an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance suggested that he and Donald Trump can win the “normal gay guy vote” and that families with transgender children are looking for an edge in Ivy League college admissions.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won, just, the normal gay guy vote, because, they just wanted to be left the hell alone,” Vance said in the conversation, which lasted more than three hours and was released Thursday. “Now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it that they’re like, ‘No, no, we didn’t want to give pharmaceutical products to 9-year-olds who are transitioning their genders.’”
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The friendly and wide-ranging interview came less than a week after Trump held his own three-hour interview with Rogan — whose podcast has more than 17 million YouTube subscribers — and less than a week before Election Day.
An early portion of the interview focused heavily on transgender people and transition-related medical care, which Vance described as “pharmaceutical conversion therapy” for gay people.
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