The wife of Sen. J.D. Vance defended her husband amid the ongoing attacks over comments he made three years ago.
Usha Vance spoke with “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt in an interview airing Monday in which she was asked about her husband, now the Republican vice presidential nominee, and his remarks about “childless cat ladies.”
“When it became controversial, what was your reaction?” Earhardt asked.
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“He made a quip in service of making a point that he wanted to make that was substantive,” Vance replied. “And I just wish sometimes that people would talk about those things and that we would spend a lot less time just sort of going through this three-word phrase or that three-word phrase because what he was really saying is that it can be really hard to be a parent in this country.”
“And we should be asking ourselves, why is that true? What is it about our leadership and the way that they think about the world that makes it so hard sometimes for parents?” the mother of three continued.
The Ohio senator has said critics have taken his comments “out of context.”
“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 recently on “Sunday Night in America.”
“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 host Trey Gowdy.
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“What do you say to the women who were offended or were hurt by that?” Earhardt asked the senator’s wife.
“J.D. absolutely, at the time and today would never, ever, ever want to say something to hurt someone who was trying to have a family who really, you know, was struggling with that,” she replied.”And I also understand there are a lot of other reasons why people may choose not to have families, and many of those reasons are very good.”
“Let’s try to look at the real conversation that he’s trying to have and engage with it and understand,” Vance added.
”For those of us who do have families, for the many of us who want to have families and for whom it’s it’s really hard. What can we do to make it better?” she said. “What can we do to make it easier to live in 2024, and live a very full life that isn’t just professional, that also has this kind of rich personal life and community behind it.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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