Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance defended his past comments on women and families without children, the Trump campaign’s proposals to deport undocumented immigrants and more in a wide-ranging interview with “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl, which airs in full on Sunday morning.

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    “The Democrats are talking about giving the vote to 16-year-olds, but let’s do this instead,” Vance said in the speech. “Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children. When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power.”

    The idea of “One person equals one vote” is really an alien concept to these people, isn’t it?

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    When asked how he and Trump would accomplish their stated goal of mass deporting as many as 20 million immigrants – a proposal experts previously told ABC News would be a “nightmare” – Vance said they would take a “sequential approach.”

    “I mean do you go knock on doors and ask people for their papers? What do you do,” Karl asked.

    “You start with what’s achievable,” Vance said. “I think that if you deport a lot of violent criminals and frankly if you make it harder to hire illegal labor, which undercuts the wages of American workers, I think you go a lot of the way to solving the illegal immigration problem.”

    “I think it’s interesting that people focus on, well, how do you deport 18 million people? Let’s start with 1 million. That’s where Kamala Harris has failed. And then we can go from there,” Vance said.

    Emphasis is mine, and I think this highlights the overall republican strategy to focus on which parts of their agenda are achievable at a given time and how they see their goals as being “sequential.” Their strategy is to slowly boil America like a frog.

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      if you make it harder to hire illegal labor

      Hey there it is! The one thing I’ll probably ever agree with this asshole on. Don’t treat the immigrants like criminals, treat the assholes hiring and exploiting them as the criminals they are.