Here Comes The Backlash To JD Vance's 'Childless Cat Ladies' Comment From 2021

Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, JD Vance, drew high-profile backlash this week for his remark in 2021 about top Democrats, such as Vice President Kamala Harris, being “childless cat ladies.”

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg slammed Vance with a “how dare you” on Wednesday morning’s broadcast, and former “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston made a rare political statement later that day.

“I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of The United States,” Aniston said on Instagram . “All I can say is...Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day.”

Kerstin Emhoff, a film producer and the ex-wife of second gentleman Doug Emhoff, called the comments “baseless attacks,” pointing out Thursday that Harris has for years been a co-parent of their children.

“She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective and always present,” Kerstin Emhoff told CNN. “I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.”

The Trump-Vance campaign hasn’t responded to the criticism.

In 2021, Vance blasted the “childless left” in a speech, arguing that people without children have less of a stake in the country’s future. He followed the speech with an incendiary interview on Fox News in which he specifically mentioned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Harris.

“We’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too,” Vance, now a U.S. senator from Ohio, said at the time.

“It’s just a basic fact: You look at Kamala Harris, Pete