The GOP had already mostly lost unmarried women. Then came JD Vance.

Donald Trump ’s pick of JD Vance as his running mate could cement the chasm between the GOP and unmarried women.

The Ohio senator's past statements about “childless cat ladies” who are “miserable,” his opposition to no-fault divorce, his hostility to reproductive rights and his agreement to raise grandchildren are getting renewed attention.

The National Women’s Law Center Action Fund , which advocates for family and caregiving policies, recently conducted a poll with Morning Consult that broke out women who do not have children but who have cats or dogs as subgroups.

The poll, which surveyed 1,766 registered voters from August 1-2 , found that women without children as a group and the smaller subset of women who had cats were equally or more likely than parents to support policies including comprehensive investments in education, guaranteeing access to child care.

The most effective messages opposing Vance tested in the August poll were rooted in his past comments about women and his anti-abortion stances.

“A lot of men don’t like hearing how he talks about women,” he said.

Republicans had already priced in the impact of their reproductive policies when it comes to single women of childbearing age and younger women, he added.