'This is rattling Trump': MSNBC host nails ex-president's biggest re-election roadblock

Reflecting back on Donald Trump's twice this past week being put on the defensive about comments made by his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, on one of the co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" suggested the former president knows Vance has become a hindrance to his bid to return of the White House.

After sharing a clip of Trump on Fox News trying to blow off hostile comments Vance made about childless women, Symone Sanders-Townsend suggested, "Folks should note that in the past, J.D. Vance has said Americans without kids should have their vote count less and advocated for government forcing women to carry pregnancies to term."

"Can I note that he was also asked, Donald Trump was also asked about this at the NABJ convention and there he seemed very defensive and said, ''You'll have to ask him.' But my reading is he went to double down in what you saw in that clip. It seems to me that this is rattling Donald Trump a little bit — but the comments that J.D. Vance had are concerning. And he has quadrupled down on them: he said he has nothing against cats. What about the childless women?"

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"You really touched on it," Emily's List President Jessica Mackler agreed. "He made this comment and then apologized to cats. What you said is right. This is a reflection of where Vance has been for many years."

"If you look over the last years he has said this many times," she added. "He said we should go to war against childless adults. But it speaks to this weird but also insidious worldview where they believe that there is one specific way to be in society and society should look very specific."

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