Kamala Harris was forced, once again, to defend the fact that she has no biological children during her interview on the often raunchy, female-focused podcast Call Her Daddy.
Speaking with host Alex Cooper, Harris responded to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said the vice president has nothing to keep her “humble” because she doesn’t have children of her own.
“This isn’t the 1950s anymore,” said Harris, who has two stepchildren by her husband Doug Emhoff. “Families come in all kinds of forms.”
“I don’t think she understands that there are a lot of women here who, for example, don’t aspire to be humble,” Harris added. “Two, there are a lot of women here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life and children in their life.”
Harris, 59, has faced a flurry of criticism from conservatives and advocates for “traditional families” and has been at the center of controversy over the “childless cat lady” comments made by Sen. JD Vance. , Republican vice presidential candidate, years ago.
Vice President Kamala Harris defended herself again for not having biological children during an interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast
The vice president’s family has come to his defense, and even Second Gentleman Emhoff’s ex-wife claimed that Harris stepped up to help raise their two children, Ella, 25, and Cole, 30.
And even Trump’s top 2024 adviser, Bryan Lanza, expressed outrage over Sanders’ “offensive” comments.
‘I’m disappointed in Sarah for saying that. “I’m sure the campaign will criticize me,” he told CNN the morning after the comments were made.
Cooper asked Harris on Sunday’s podcast episode about Governor Sanders’ attack, which was made onstage before a town hall with former President Donald Trump.
“I think it’s really important for women to lift each other up,” Harris said as she spoke warmly about her blended “modern family.”
Sanders, who was one of Trump’s White House press secretaries, said during his event in the swing state of Michigan last month: ‘The most important job I have; The greatest title I have is being a mother.’
“My children serve as a constant reminder of everything that is at stake in the country,” said the mother of three.
“My children not only serve as a constant reminder of what’s important, but they also keep me humble,” Sanders continued. “My children keep me humble.”
“Unfortunately, Kamala Harris has nothing to keep her humble,” he concluded.
Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper asked Harris about the attacks, specifically from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, criticizing the vice president for not having children of her own.
Harris has no children, but is stepmother to her husband Doug Emhoff’s two children from his first marriage: Cole, 30 (left), and Ella, 25 (right).
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a town hall with Donald Trump in Michigan last month that her three children kept her “humble” and said Harris has nothing that “keeps her humble.”
Harris’ childlessness has come to the center of discussion in the 2024 presidential race after President Joe Biden was sworn into office on July 21.
Senator Vance’s years-old comments in an interview with Tucker Carlson have been weaponized by Democrats, who insist they are proof that the GOP doesn’t want women not to have children.
Even pop icon Taylor Swift waded into the political waters last month when she endorsed Harris and signed her statement on Instagram as a “childless cat lady.”
In a 2021 Fox News interview, Vance said the country was run by “a bunch of childless cats who are miserable with their own lives and the decisions they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable.” , also.’
Harris called those comments “mean and mean” in her interview with Cooper.
Call Her Daddy is the most listened to and downloaded podcast by women. The genre is described as covering themes of “human sexuality, sexual relationships, interviews, and New York City culture.”