WASHINGTON ― Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), Donald Trump’s vice presidential choose, mentioned in 2021 that Vice President Kamala Harris is without doubt one of the “childless cat ladies” who’s “miserable” along with her life and has no direct stake in America as a result of she will not be a mother.
In a speech at an Intercollegiate Research Institute convention, Vance particularly named Harris in a tirade towards the “childless left” who’ve “no physical commitment to the future of this country.” He lumped the vice chairman in with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
“Why is this just a normal fact of … life, for the leaders of our country to be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring?” Vance mentioned.
Days later, the Ohio Republican doubled down on his assaults on childless Democrats in an interview with then-Fox Information’ Tucker Carlson.
“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 mentioned.
“It’s just a basic fact: You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” he mentioned. “And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people that don’t have a direct stake in it.”
In a single fell swoop, Vance baselessly maligned enormous swaths of Individuals. Hundreds of thousands of individuals don’t — or can’t — have youngsters. Loads of others have cute cats. They aren’t residing in distress, and so they have simply as a lot a stake in America’s future as anybody. Even uglier, the Ohio Republican appeared to make a homophobic knock on Buttigieg, who’s homosexual, by referring to him as one in every of these supposed childless cat women.
And the truth is that Harris is a stepmother, recognized inside her household as “Momala” to her two step-children along with her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff. Buttigieg, in the meantime, has gushed about his two youngsters — twins! — whom he and his husband adopted in August 2021.
Ocasio-Cortez fired again at Vance, who beforehand labored in enterprise capital with billionaire Republican Peter Thiel, after his 2021 feedback on Fox Information.
“When you accidentally let your billionaire funder-talk slip out on TV, you say things like ‘a healthy ruling class,’” she wrote on social media on the time.
Aides to Trump’s marketing campaign and Harris’ marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark about Vance’s assaults on individuals with out youngsters.
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