Vice President Kamala Harris spoke about helping to raise her stepchildren in a “very modern family” in response to Republicans attacks against her for not having biological children.
On Sunday, Call her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper brought up comments made by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) at a Trump rally last month knocking the Democratic presidential nominee for not having biological children.
“So, my kids keep me humble,” Sanders said. “Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”
Harris has two stepchildren from her husband Doug Emhoff’s previous marriage.
“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 and I think it’s very important for women to lift each other up,” Harris said.
“We have a very modern family, my husband’s ex-wife is a friend of mine,” she continued, adding, “Family comes in many forms and I think that increasingly, all of us understand that this is not the 1950’s anymore. Families come in all shapes or forms and they are family nonetheless.”
Sanders’ comments echoed those of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, who has referred to Democrats without kids as “childless cat ladies.”
“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,” Vance told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2021.
“And so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too,” he continued. “And 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.”
Harris told Cooper that Vance’s comments were “mean and mean-spirited.”
“I think that most Americans want leaders who understand that the measure of their strength is not based on who you beat down, the real measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up,” she added.
