Usha Vance, the wife of Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, defended her husband when pressed on his resurfaced 2021 remarks about “childless cat ladies” leading the country that came under widespread scrutiny last month.
In a taped interview that aired on “Fox and Friends” this morning, Usha Vance said her husband’s “quip” intended to convey that U.S. policies do not do enough to provide the support families need.
“He made a quip in service of making a point that he wanted to make that was substantive,” she said. “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 sometimes our policies are designed in a way that make it even harder.”
“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?’” she added.
Asked what she would say to the women who were offended by the “childless cat ladies” remark, Usha Vance said that her husband would “never ever” want his comments “to hurt someone who is trying to have a family or is struggling with that,” and reiterated that he wants to foster a conversation about improving the lives of families.
“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,” she said. “I think what I would say is, let’s try to look at the real conversation that he’s trying to have and engage with it and understand for those of us who do have families — for the many of us who want to have families, and for whom it’s really hard — what can we do to make it better? 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.”
Vance had doubled down on his “childless cat ladies” dig amid backlash for his 2021 comments, telling SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” that it was a “sarcastic comment” and blamed the media for “focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said.”
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