JD Vance talks outrage over 'childless cat ladies' comment: 'It's important for us to be pro-family as a country'

U.S. Sen. JD Vance once again set the record straight on his “childless cat ladies” remark that Democrats have weaponized against him.

The Ohio Republican and vice presidential nominee spoke with Fox News host Trey Gowdy about how Democrats have taken his words “out of context” and reiterated the original intent of his 2021 comments.

“If you look at the full context of what I said, it’s very clear the Democrats have tried to take this thing out of context and blow it out of proportion, which is what they always do because they don’t have an agenda to run on themselves,” he said on “Sunday Night in America.”

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In a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, Vance said, “We are 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, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

As examples of this type of figure on the left, he noted Vice President Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The resurfaced clip ignited a meltdown as Democrats sought to pin the VP hopeful as disrespectful to women, something the left has actually had difficulty defining.

“If you look at what the American people are most concerned about, it’s not an out-of-context quip I made three years ago. It’s the fact that Kamala Harris, the border czar, opened the American southern border. It’s the fact that the Democratic Party has become explicitly anti-family in some of their policies,” he told Gowdy.

“In fact, you just heard Kamala Harris in a surfaced clip recently talk about how it was a bad idea to have kids because of climate change anxiety, so what I’m trying to get at here is that it’s important for us to be pro-family as a country. Of course, for a whole host of reasons, it’s not going to work out for some people. We should pray for those people and have sympathy for them. I still think that means we should be pro-family, generally speaking, as a party,” Vance added.

The senator blasted Democrats for their continued anti-child and anti-family rhetoric. On social media, Vance shared a post by Donald Trump Jr. that showed Harris saying how young people have expressed how they feel they have “climate anxiety.” Harris called it “the fear of the future and the unknown of whether it makes sense for you to even think about having children.”

“It’s almost like these people don’t want young people starting families or something. Really weird stuff,” Vance wrote in the post accompanying the video, prompting a response from X owner Elon Musk.

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“There are a whole host of people who don’t have children for a whole host of reasons, and they certainly are great people who can participate fully in the life of this country,” Vance told Gowdy.

“So this is not a criticism and was never a criticism of everybody without children. That is a lie of the left. It is a criticism of the increasingly anti-parents and anti-child attitude of the left,” he later added.

Vance told SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” last week: “Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats.” He accused the media of “focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said.”

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