Usha Vance took a stab at defending JD Vance’s “childless cat ladies” remark on Monday, saying in an interview that her husband—who has also said people without kids are more likely to be mentally unstable sociopaths—would never want to hurt people trying to have kids.
The problem’s just the heathens who actively choose not to have them, you see!.
Speaking to Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt for a prerecorded interview that aired this morning, the would-be second lady insisted the vice presidential candidate “would never ever, ever, want to say something to hurt someone who was trying to have a family.”
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Vance then name-checked Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as being among the “childless” people “we’ve turned our country over to...who don’t really have a direct stake in it.”
As Buttigieg himself argued last week, Vance’s comments were not only insulting but patently absurd, with the transportation secretary telling Jon Stewart: “When I was deployed to Afghanistan, I didn’t have kids back then, but I will tell you…my commitment to this country felt pretty physical. »
