JD Vance’s sexist comments on ‘childless cat ladies’ like Kamala Harris go viral again
Donald Trump’s newly minted running mate JD Vance is going viral yet again for past sexist comments about Vice President Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic nominee for president in the 2024 election.
In a resurfaced clip from 2021, Vance told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the country was run 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.”
“Look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” Vance continued. “How does it make any sense we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race on Sunday and swiftly endorsed Harris to replace him. Later that day, Harris confirmed that she would be running for the Democratic nomination.
Harris, who is married to longtime entertainment lawyer Doug Emhoff, actually has two step-children: Ella and Cole Emhoff.
In 2019, she wrote in Elle: “I was already hooked on Doug, but I believe it was Cole and Ella who reeled me in.”
“A few years later when Doug and I got married, Cole, Ella, and I agreed that we didn’t like the term ‘stepmom.’ Instead they came up with the name ‘Momala,’” she said.
“Our time as a family is Sunday dinner. We come together, all of us around the table, and over time we’ve fallen into our roles. Cole sets the table and picks the music, Ella makes beautiful desserts, Doug acts as my sous-chef, and I cook.”
Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski mocked Vance’s comments on Tuesday, after they went viral, while scratching a cat who was sitting on her lap.
“My kids are older. Does that make