![JD Vance answered a young Republican woman’s question about being priced out of a home by cracking a joke about Senator Jon Husted’s backside. The vice president was taking questions at a Fox News town hall taped in Fort Worth, Texas, and aired Thursday night on Jesse Watters Primetime, five days before the midterms. Kate White, vice president of the Turning Point USA chapter at Texas Christian University, told Vance her generation is pushed to marry young and have as many children as possible while a house stays out of reach. ‘How does the right and yourself expect us to start families young when the average price of a home in America now costs more than $415,000,’ she asked. Vance thanked her for the question, then started counting before drifting to another topic. He said he had fielded four or five questions all night and ‘only been asked one question about Jon Husted’s [expletive],’ and that one had come from Watters. Watters laughed and protested that it was what everyone was talking about, prompting Vance to tell him to run for Senate in Texas as a Democrat.](https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/30/12/112192021-0-image-a-33_1793364076488.jpg)
Vice President JD Vance responded to a young Republican’s question about being unable to afford a home with a joke about Senator Jon Husted’s backside. Vance was taking questions during a Fox News town hall recorded in Fort Worth, Texas, and broadcast Thursday night on Jesse Watters Primetime, five days before the midterm elections. Kate White, vice president of the Turning Point USA chapter at Texas Christian University, told Vance that young Americans are pressured to marry early and have large families even as homeownership remains out of reach. “How does the right and yourself expect us to start families young when the average price of a home in America now costs more than $415,000,” she asked. Vance thanked her before counting the questions he had received and abruptly shifting topics. He said he had been asked four or five questions that evening and “only been asked one question about Jon Husted’s [expletive],” adding that Watters had raised it. Watters laughed and said it was what everyone was discussing, prompting Vance to suggest that he run for Senate in Texas as a Democrat.
Vance draws backlash over affordability joke
The joke echoed a line Donald Trump has repeatedly used over the past month. The president began the sequence at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, where he said he had sized up Husted, a former college cornerback, and “looked at his ass.” Critics on social media accused Vance of treating the young woman’s affordability concerns flippantly. One X user posted, “We can’t afford a home.” “Durr John Husted’s ass am I right guys?” JD Vance is the worst politician ever.” Sarah Matthews, a deputy press secretary in Trump’s first White House, said she could not believe it was “a real exchange between a voter and the Vice President of the United States.”
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Vance admits affordability blind spot
Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama, also criticized Vance on X, asking his followers: “How is this real and how is he this bad at politics?” Vance eventually addressed White’s question, acknowledging that Republicans have not focused enough on affordability for younger Americans while presenting himself as an exception. He blamed illegal immigration and Wall Street investors purchasing homes for contributing to the problem.
The town hall aired just five days before an election that experts said could cost Republicans their majorities in both the House and Senate. With voters ranking the cost of living among their top concerns, Trump spent the final stretch of the campaign dismissing the affordability crisis as a “hoax.”
