Usha Vance said Monday that her husband, Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, is a Democrat who runs the U.S. government.Cat woman with no children” He said his “sarcastic remark” highlighted a “substantial” truth: “It’s hard to be a parent in this country.”
in Wide-ranging interview with Fox News On Monday morning’s episode, Usha Vance dismissed critics who tend to get hung up on “these three words or those three words.” “What he’s really trying to say is that it’s really hard to be a parent in this country, and that sometimes our policies are designed in ways that make it even harder.”
“The reality is, he was making a joke to get his point across, and that’s the point,” she explained. “What is it about our leaders and the way they think about the world that makes it so hard for parents sometimes?”
When asked by Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt what her message was to the women who were offended or hurt by his comments, Usha Vance was adamant that her husband “would never say anything to hurt anyone who is trying to start a family.”
“We have a lot of friends who have been in the same position,” she told Earhart, “and it’s tough, but you never want to ridicule or make fun of anyone.”
“I also understand that there are many other reasons why people choose not to have a family. And many of those reasons are very valid,” she added, noting that JD’s comments were aimed at “so many of us who have families, so many of us who want to have families and find it really difficult. What can we do to make the situation better? What can we do to make it easier to live in 2024?”
While Usha acknowledged that it was “painful” to lose friendships she had made at Yale Law School because of her political stance, she said that all the abuse levelled at her and her husband had made her “a little more sensitive,” and that her husband was now “in a position where a lot of assumptions were made about us” and that he was “drawing a lot of conclusions based on information that is sometimes not true.”
“One really good piece of advice someone gave me was to not read the news so much,” she recalled, noting that she and JD also “come to different conclusions all the time” and that “that’s part of the fun of being married.”
The comments resurfaced and spread on social media after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump selected Vance as his running mate at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in mid-July.
In 2021 Fox News interview unearthedVance accused “Democrats” and “corporate oligarchs” of being “childless catwomen who are miserable in their own lives” and who “want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
“It’s a fundamental fact that, as you can see with Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg and Alabama Ocasio-Cortez, the entire future of the Democratic Party is hinged on people who don’t have children,” he further said during an exchange with then Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“And what does it mean to turn our country over to people who have no real direct stake in it?” he asked.
Kamala Harris’ campaign slammed Vance for the comments, describing his comments in a report on Sunday as “a massive crusade against cat ladies and women who don’t have children.”
He also tried to smear Vance as a “nutjob,” but the Ohio Republican senator Shot back “The left is becoming increasingly explicitly anti-child and anti-family.”
In an interview with Fox News, Usha Vance said she “had fun” filling her husband’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention with family anecdotes, and that they had “serious conversations” about giving their three children a “stable, normal, happy life and upbringing” despite J.D.’s rapid rise through the ranks once he’s sworn in as a U.S. senator in 2022.
“I think what we need to do is to keep them and let them live their lives as kids and do what they feel they deserve and spend lots of time with their dad,” Usha said.
“He’s a great father. He’s a great husband. He’s my best friend. He’s funny. He has all kinds of silly hobbies that anybody our age can relate to,” she continued when asked about the best thing about her husband.
“When I watch the news, all I see is a caricature of a human being,” she lamented. “I hope people will sometimes stop and listen to what he is saying and try to understand its meaning and purpose.”
“I think he really cares about having good conversations about actually changing things and changing things for the better for people who have had such a hard time in this country, and wanting them to be able to live the kind of life that he was fortunate enough to live himself,” Usha asserted. “That’s what I want people to know about him.”
