Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) took a swipe at Vice-President Kamala Harris for not having biological children on Tuesday.
Speaking at Donald Trump’s town hall in Flint, Michigan, Sanders said her children keep her “humble” and that Harris does not have that.
“Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble,” she said.
Harris has two stepchildren from her husband Doug Emhoff’s previous marriage.
Sanders’ comments echoed those of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, who has referred to Democrats without kids as “childless cat ladies” and has a long line of other controversial statements targeting women and family.
“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.”
Vance also called for tax penalties for people without children and even suggested giving extra votes to people with children.
