American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten suggested Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) “must really be disconnected from life” in response to resurfaced comments in which he called out the union head for not having children.
“It was just a bizarre thing for him to double down on it now because every parent and every teacher and every kid in August and September are thinking about the new year and what it means and that engagement,” Weingarten said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.” “So, he must really be disconnected from life.”
Weingarten was responding to a resurfaced clip from 2021 of Vance speaking to the Center for Christian Virtue — an Ohio policy group — about left-wing ideology in schools.
“You know, so many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids, trying to brainwash the minds of our children. And that really disorients me and it really disturbs me,” Vance said in the clip.
“Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers union in the country, doesn’t have a single child,” Vance added. “If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.”