Sen. JD Vance is furious that Democrats are now claiming his comments about the “childless cat lady” are racist.
The attacks on the vice presidential candidate and biracial father of three children are continuing, and now some are saying they have gone too far.
An MSNBC contributor on Tuesday claimed Vance just wants “more white kids” in America, which his campaign called a “garbage comment.”
A major problem with the latest line of attack is that the Ohio senator has three biracial children with his wife Usha, who is the daughter of Indian immigrants.
“These disgusting attacks are a reminder that the left-wing media will stop at nothing to smear any Republican they see as a threat to their radical agenda,” Vance spokesman William Martin told DailyMail.com.
MSNBC contributor Molly Jong-Fast says Sen. JD Vance’s comments about the “childless cat lady” are racist because he claims he just wants more “white kids” in the U.S.
“Senator Vance and his wife Usha have three beautiful biracial children,” he continued. “It is because of vile attacks like this that most Americans have lost faith in mainstream media to report the news fairly.”
‘MSNBC should be ashamed of itself for allowing this garbage to air on its network.’
MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire highlighted the statistic that more Americans are intentionally choosing to remain childless and that the resurgence of the 2021 comments has “politically damaged” Vance.
Contributor Molly Jong-Fast, who has now had her X account blocked, said on Morning Joe on Tuesday that Vance’s perspective is authoritarian and racist.
“What’s interesting is that this birth rate comes from an authoritarian playbook, right?” John-Fast said. “There needs to be more white children, right? That’s the idea: that this is a great replacement theory of racism, right?”
“This is what it is,” she insisted. “So don’t interpret it as her wanting more children. She wants something racist.”
“JD Vance wants America to have only white children so badly that he married a black woman and had biracial children,” one X user wrote in response to a clip of the exchange.
Tucker Carlson biographer Chadwick Moore wrote in X: “Some MSNBC nutcase says JD Vance wants more ‘white kids.’ I guess that’s why he married an Indian woman and has biracial kids.”
And Heritage Action communications director Cody Sargent sarcastically quipped that Jong-Fast’s claim is “probably news to Sen. Vance’s wife, Usha, a first-generation Indian-American, and their biracial children.”
The entire line of attack against Vance stems from a 2021 interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“In reality, we are run in this country by Democrats, by our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable with their own lives and the choices they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too,” she said at the time.
“What’s the point of us handing over our country to people who really have no vested interest in it?” he added.
Vance is married to Usha, the daughter of Indian immigrants. They have three biracial children: Ewan, 6, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel, 2.
Vance has three mixed-race children, Ewan, 6, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel, 2, with his wife Usha, whom he met while they were attending Yale together.
Trump came to the defense of his running mate, saying he was not bothered by her comments about the “childless cat lady” because they showed she had “family values.”
“He loves his family. It’s very important to him,” Trump told Fox host Laura Ingraham during an interview that aired Monday night.
“He grew up in a very interesting family situation and he believes that family is a good thing,” Trump added of Vance. “And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with saying that.”
