“JUST A BASIC FACT”
The resurfaced 2021 clip shows Vance, then a US Senate candidate from Ohio, telling Fox’s Tucker Carlson that the US was being run 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 said.
“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?”
Buttigieg, who is the US transportation secretary and had adopted two children that same year, told CNN the comments were hurtful given an adoption setback he was facing at the time.
“He couldn’t have known that, but maybe that’s why you shouldn’t be talking about other people’s children,” Buttigieg said.
Harris has two stepchildren, Cole and Ella, through her husband Doug Emhoff and his first wife.
Their mother, Kerstin Emhoff, said in a statement to CNN that the attacks on Harris were “baseless”.
“For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I,” she said.
“I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.”
Ella, 25, who refers to Harris as “Momala”, meanwhile wrote on Instagram that “I love my three parents”.
“How can you be ‘childless’ when you have cutie pie kids like Cole and I.”
