JD Vance’s wife Usha defends his ‘childless cat ladies’ swipe: ‘It can be really hard to be a parent’

Usha Vance, the wife of Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance, took to Fox & Friends on Fox News to do some damage control as he faces backlash over his resurfaced comments mocking people without children and criticizing some Democratic politicians as “childless cat ladies.”

The sit-down interview, Usha Vance’s first solo appearance, aired on Monday morning, with the trial lawyer claiming that her husband’s statement was just a “quip.”

His wife insisted in the interview that his remarks — which faced renewed criticism after he joined the ticket as Trump’s vice presidential nominee — were simply about the challenges parents face and what role the government plays in the lives of parents.

“JD, absolutely at the time and today, would never, ever, ever want to say something to hurt someone who was trying to have a family, who really was struggling with that,” Usha Vance told Fox. “I also understand there are a lot of other reasons why people may choose not to have families, and many of those reasons are very good.”

“I took a moment to look and actually see what he had said and tried to understand what the context was and all that which is something that I really wish people would do a little bit more often,” she added.

“The reality is, JD made a quote – I mean, he made a quip, and he made a quip in service of making a point that he wanted to make that was substantive,” she told Fox News. “And I just wish sometimes that people would talk about those things and that we would spend a lot less time just sort of going through this three-word phrase or that three-word phrase.”

“What he was really saying is that it can be really hard to be a parent in this country, and sometimes our policies are designed in a way that make it