Kamala Harris hits back at ‘childless’ attacks on Call Her Daddy podcast: ‘This is not the 1950s anymore’
Kamala Harris responded to the latest iteration of JD Vance’s now-notorious comment calling the vice president a “childless cat lady.”
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said last month that “my kids keep me humble” and that “unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”
The vice president responded to the Republican governor’s statement on the latest episode of Call Her Daddy, a mega-popular sex-positive podcast that Spotify calls the “most-listened-to podcast by women.”
“I feel sorry for [her],” Harris told podcast host Alex Cooper.
“I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble, two, a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life, and children in their life,” she added. ”And I think it’s really important for women to lift each other up.”
Vance’s resurfaced remark from 2021 was widely derided by a collection of people — including Jennifer Aniston, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife, and Taylor Swift — who swiftly defended the vice president.
Others pointed out that the claim is nonsensical to begin with; Harris is a mother totwo stepchildren.
In August, Harris’ step-daughter Ella Emhoff posted in response to Vance’s remark: “How can you be ‘childless’ when you have cutie pie kids like Cole and I? I love my three parents.”
The Democratic presidential nominee emphasized on the podcast that there is more than one composition of a family.
“We have our family by blood, and then we have our family by love, and I have both, and I consider it to be a real blessing,” she told Cooper. “And I have two beautiful children, Cole and Ella, who call me Momala. We have a very modern family.