JD Vance Admits He Was Wrong, New Polling Could Flip Election Expectations | 6/16/26 FIRST LOOK
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 16 June 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" gives a first look to the stories you need to know to start your day including Vice President JD Vance revisiting his infamous "childless cat ladies" comment in his new memoir Communion, admitting it was "one of the dumbest things" he's ever said while defending his broader concerns about declining birth rates, family formation, marriage, and America's increasingly anti-child culture; reactions from figures like Taylor Swift, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who became part of the controversy; and new polling analyzed by CNN's Harry Enten suggesting Democrats may not be headed for the massive 2026 midterm wave many political observers expected, as surveys from NBC News, Marquette Law School, and Ipsos show Republicans remaining surprisingly competitive, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Dave Rubin, and this is First Look. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Tuesday, June 16th, 2026. We've got a packed show for you today. |
| 0:13.0 | Vice President J.D. Vance reflects on his infamous childless cat ladies comment and admits it was one of the dumbest things he's ever said. |
| 0:22.6 | New polling data suggests Democrats' hopes for a massive midterm wave may be running into |
| 0:28.2 | political reality. Let's dive in. |
| 0:30.7 | We start with Vice President J.D. Vance, who is making headlines ahead of the release |
| 0:35.2 | of his new book Communion by revisiting one of the |
| 0:38.5 | most controversial comments of his political career. |
| 0:42.0 | And surprisingly, he's admitting he got it wrong. |
| 0:45.3 | Vance's new memoir, which chronicles his journey from Protestantism to atheism and ultimately |
| 0:50.8 | to Catholicism, officially hits shelves today. |
| 0:54.8 | In the book, Vance reflects on the infamous Childless Cat Ladies' remark he made back in |
| 0:59.7 | 2021 during an appearance on Tucker Carlson's Fox News program. |
| 1:05.0 | At the time, Vance argued that America was increasingly being governed by elites who didn't have |
| 1:10.4 | children and therefore |
| 1:11.7 | had less of a stake in the country's future. |
| 1:14.6 | He famously said, we're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate |
| 1:20.5 | oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives |
| 1:26.0 | and the choices that they've made. |
| 1:28.2 | He specifically mentioned figures like Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Alexandri |
| 1:33.2 | Ocasio-Cortez, and argued that people raising children naturally have a greater investment |
| 1:38.9 | in the future of the country. |
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