Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance said Friday that his comment about the “childless cat lady” was “sarcastic,” but reaffirmed that Democrats have “anti-family” and “anti-child” stances.
“Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I have nothing against cats, I have nothing against dogs, I have a dog at home and I love him,” the Ohio Republican said. “But look, people are focusing too much on the sarcasm and not the essence of what I actually said.”
Vance recorded an episode of The Megyn Kelly Show that aired on SiriusXM amid the fallout from the resurfaced joke that angered several women, including actress Jennifer Aniston and legions of Taylor Swift fans.
The vice presidential candidate said both liberal and conservative women responded to the cat comments by saying they were “glad” Vance pointed out that there is “something deeply anti-family about our public policy.”
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance said Friday his comment about the “childless cat lady” was “sarcastic” but reaffirmed his “anti-family” and “anti-child” stance on Democrats.
He tried to blame it on the Democrats’ policies.
“We have to ask ourselves: why are we still using masks for young children years after the pandemic is over?” she mused.
Vance also said Harris’ campaign spoke out against extending the child tax credit.
“Why is the Harris campaign coming out this very morning and saying we shouldn’t have the child tax credit that lowers tax rates for parents of young children?” the vice presidential candidate asked.
That statement appears to be false.
The Biden administration’s current position is that the White House is “committed to restoring the American Rescue Plan’s critical expansion of the Child Tax Credit to help all American families and children.”
AND Axios reported on Wednesday that Harris, as president, would work to expand the Child Tax Credit, having championed it in the Senate and led the effort to expand it after the enhanced version that was part of the American Rescue Plan expired.
But she failed in that effort, as Republican senators and some moderate Democrats rejected it.
Aniston’s main issue with Trump’s vice president was Vance’s perceived resistance to IVF treatments.
“All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray your daughter is lucky enough to have children of her own someday,” Aniston wrote in a rare political Instagram post. “I hope she doesn’t have to resort to IVF as a second option. Because you’re trying to take that away from her too.”
Vance voted against the Democratic-led IVF Rights Act last month, though he did support a GOP-sponsored bill, the IVF Protection Act, that would strip states of Medicaid funding if they banned IVF treatments, though it would allow some restrictions.
During the Q&A with Kelly, Vance explained that he was in favor of IVF within reason.
“I think we have to protect the right of Christian hospitals to operate as they wish,” he said. “But of course that is entirely consistent with promoting fertility treatments for parents who need them.”