J.D. Vance to Tucker Carlson:
“We’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless Cat Ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they have made, so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too, & it’s just a basic fact—you look, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
Years before he was selected as Donald Trump's running mate, Vance gave an interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson in July 2021. During the conversation, Vance said the U.S. was being run, under Democratic leadership, 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. "
"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," Vance, 39, told Carlson. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?"
Vance went on to say that those who "actually have kids" are "the people who have a more direct stake in the future of this country."
That Vance, who has three children with wife Usha Chilukuri Vance, called out three "childless" Democrats by name is particularly noteworthy — in part, because it's not true. One of them, Harris, became a stepmom to her husband Doug Emhoff's two children in August 2014. Now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Harris has for years spoken openly about her close relationship with her stepchildren, who refer to her as "Momala."
Buttigieg, meanwhile, now the Secretary of Transportation, does have children: twins he adopted with husband Chasten in September 2021, just weeks after Vance's interview aired.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, meanwhile, does not have children. But as critics of Vance's comments have weighed in: so what?
Florida state Rep. Anna Eskamani chided Vance for his comments in a post on X, writing, “As a childless cat lady I have a huge stake in America and am not miserable but thanks for your concern, Vance.”
Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, who ran for the presidency against Trump in 2016, wrote sarcastically: “What a normal, relatable guy who certainly doesn’t hate women having freedoms.”?…[ People Magazine ]
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