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Kamala Harris responded to the most recent iteration of JD Vance’s now-notorious remark calling the vp a “childless cat woman.”
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders mentioned final month that “my youngsters preserve me humble” and that “sadly, Kamala Harris doesn’t have something retaining her humble.”
The vp responded to the Republican governor’s assertion on the most recent episode of Name Her Daddy, a mega-popular sex-positive podcast that Spotify calls the “most-listened-to podcast by girls.”
“I really feel sorry for [her],” Harris instructed podcast host Alex Cooper.
“I don’t assume she understands that there are an entire lot of girls out right here who, one, usually are not aspiring to be humble, two, an entire lot of girls out right here who’ve a variety of love of their life, household of their life, and youngsters of their life,” she added. ”And I feel it’s actually vital for ladies to raise one another up.”
Vance’s resurfaced comment from 2021 was extensively derided by a group of individuals — together with Jennifer Aniston, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife, and Taylor Swift — who swiftly defended the vp.
Others identified that the declare is nonsensical to start with; Harris is a mom to 2 stepchildren.
In August, Harris’ step-daughter Ella Emhoff posted in response to Vance’s comment: “How will you be ‘childless’ when you’ve cutie pie youngsters like Cole and I? I really like my three mother and father.”
The Democratic presidential nominee emphasised on the podcast that there’s a couple of composition of a household.
“We now have our household by blood, after which we’ve our household by love, and I’ve each, and I think about it to be an actual blessing,” she instructed Cooper. “And I’ve two lovely youngsters, Cole and Ella, who name me Momala. We now have a really fashionable household. My husband’s ex-wife is a pal of mine.”
She added: “Household is available in many varieties and I feel that more and more, all of us perceive that this isn’t the Nineteen Fifties anymore. Households are available in all shapes or varieties and they’re household nonetheless.”
Cooper additionally requested Harris to reply to the Republican vice presidential nominee’s unique remark that the “whole way forward for the Democrats is managed by folks with out youngsters.”
“And the way does it make any sense that we’ve turned our nation over to individuals who don’t actually have a direct stake in it?” Vance mentioned on the time.
Harris instructed Cooper she thought the comment was “imply and mean-spirited.”
”I feel that almost all People need leaders who perceive that the measure of their power just isn’t primarily based on who you beat down, the actual measure of the power of a frontrunner is predicated on who you raise up,” she added.
Harris additionally mentioned why she grew to become a prosecutor, citing her want to guard girls, particularly after her pal Wanda had been sexually assaulted, a narrative that she additionally recounted in her remarks to the Democratic Nationwide Conference in August.
Cooper additionally revived a viral second from 2018 when the then-California Senator pressed Brett Kavanaugh throughout his affirmation hearings about his stances on abortion.
She requested Harris to reply the identical query she requested Kavanaugh: “Can we attempt to consider any regulation that provides the federal government the facility to decide a couple of man’s physique?”
“I do know what you’re going to ask,” Harris mentioned, laughing. “No! No. No. No.”
