JD Vance Says He Was Being 'Sarcastic' About Childless Cat Ladies, Has 'Nothing Against Cats'

JD Vance isn’t backing down from his past criticism of prominent elected Democrats as “childless cat ladies.”

In an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Kelly talked to Vance in depth about scornful comments he made in 2021 about people who choose not to procreate. At one point, she asked him to respond to the outrage over his use of the term “cat ladies.”

“Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats. I’ve got nothing against dogs, and I’ve got one dog at home, and I love him,” Vance said.

“People are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I said, and the substance of what I said, Megyn, I’m sorry, it’s true,” Vance said.

In his interview with Kelly on Friday, Vance acknowledged that Harris has stepchildren and that Buttigieg has adopted children.

“I wish her stepchildren, and Kamala Harris, and her whole family, the very best,” Vance said. “The point is not that she’s lesser. The point is that her a party has pursued of set of policies that are profoundly anti-child.”

But Vance did not take back his 2021 statements that people without children have less of a stake in the country’s future. He didn’t recant his claim that people who’ve chosen not to have children are miserable.

The Ohio Republican senator and vice presidential candidate went on to explain that Democrats are “anti-family” because, in part, of liberal commentary about the downsides of having children. (Some young people say, for instance, that they don’t have want to have children because of climate change.)

Vance also pointed, repeatedly, to two anti-family policy positions that he claimed Democrats have taken: “Why are they wanting to mask toddlers years into the pandemic? Why are they