GOP vice-presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) has been attacking Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, at every turn. We’ve dealt with some of his more substantive policy attacks, but here’s a quick roundup of some of the sillier false claims he’s made.

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A Vance spokesman did not respond to a request to provide evidence for these claims, which seem rooted in misleading clips that circulate on right-wing social media.

Children and climate change

“She has said things like, ‘it’s reasonable not to have children over climate change.’ I think that’s the exact opposite message we should be sending to our young families.”

— Vance, interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Aug. 11

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This is false. Vance made this comment as he tried to explain 2021 remarks that Harris was one of those “childless cat ladies who are miserable in their own lives and they want to make the rest of country miserable, too.” (Harris has two stepchildren.) To Bash, he said: “I criticized Kamala Harris for being part of a set of ideas that exists in American leadership that is anti-family. I never, Dana, criticized people for not having kids. I criticized people for being anti-child.”

That’s when he offered the claim that Harris once said “it’s reasonable not to have children over climate change.”

There is zero evidence that Harris said that. Instead, Vance appears to be...

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