Donald Trumps vice-presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), has blamed transgender inclusion for Americas declining schools.Ahead of the Ohio senators highly anticipated debate with Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz on Tuesday, Vance test-drove his trans line of attack on Saturday on stage with Lance Wallau, a notorious anti-LGBTQ+ hate pastor currently on a stealth Trump campaign revival tour. Related MAGA preacher says witchcraft caused Trumps debate disaster Lance Wallau is calling for a supernatural solution to the former presidents poor debate skills. Creeping socialism and 87 different genders are poisoning in the minds of our kids, Vance claimed in a trademark ramble in answer to a question from Wallnau, a Christian nationalist conspiracy theorist. Your LGBTQ+ guide to Election 2024 Stay ahead of the 2024 Election with our newsletter that covers candidates, issues, and perspectives that matter. Subscribe to our Newsletter today First of all, Vance said, the American education system used to be the envy of the world, rich or poor alike. We believe in this country that every person deserves a quality education.Well, now weve got American children who cant add five plus five, but they can tell you that there are 87 different genders, the one-time venture capitalist claimed. And I think both of those things are related. J.D. Vance, making the case for cutting off funding to radical public schools: Now weve got American children that cant add 5+5, but they can tell you there are 87 different genders.Has anyone ever met a student for whom this is true? pic.twitter.com/i9GkGcL4OL Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) September 29, 2024According to Vance, American schools funded by taxpayer dollars are now akin to Communist reeducation camps brainwashing our children with radical ideas.This picture paints teachers like Walz, a former coach and social studies teacher in Minnesota public schools, as radical purveyors of Godless socialist ideology and a threat to Americas Christian heritage.Because were teaching kids radical ideas, Vance continued, were not teaching them the basics. Were not teaching them reading, writing, arithmetic, the things that every child needs in order to live a good life. And that is to your point, Vance told Wallnau, this creeping socialism in our schools. Weve got to get it out of there, and I think we cut off the money. Stop spending your tax dollars on radical organizations that are poisoning the minds of our kids.Trump and Project 2025 the authoritarian blueprint for a second Trump presidency drafted by the right-wing Heritage Foundation advocate dismantling the Department of Education. The former president declared in February, We will force schools to adopt school prayer which Project 2025 also suggests. Vance appeared at the event just miles from Butler, PA (where Trump was shot in the ear over the summer) as a guest on Wallnaus Courage Tour, a Trump campaign proxy in the guise of an old-time religion revival tour. Wallnau was a key player on the ground in mobilizing Christian nationalist support and bodies for the January 6th insurrection. His Courage Tour has been supplied with swing state voter data by Trump-aligned America First Legal, run by Trump administration propagandist Stephen Miller.Wallnau is known for popularizing the Seven Mountain Mandate that asserts conservative Christians are called on to rule the world.Following Trumps debate with Kamala Harris earlier this month, Wallnau said he witnessed occult-empowered deception, manipulation and domination, over the airwaves at the event. Thats what ABC pulled off as moderators, and Kamalas script handlers set up the kill box, he said. Wallnau called it witchcraft.After a so-called demonic Harris secured support for the Democratic nomination in August, Wallnau predicted shed pick U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate to stoke national division over racism and perversion.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.