‘This Is Not The 1950s’: Kamala Harris Hits Back at ‘Childless Cat Lady’ Attack on ‘Call Her Daddy’ Podcast

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke about taking in her husband’s two children as her own and called Sen. JD Vance’s (R-OJ) “childless cat ladies” comment “mean-spirited” on the latest episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, which dropped on Sunday.

Harris sat down with podcast host Alex Cooper to discuss a number of topics with just four weeks until the November election. During one moment of their conversation, Cooper read Harris a quote from Republican Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders insulting her for not having children of her own.

Huckabee Sanders previously said of Harris, who has two stepchildren, “My kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”

Asked by Cooper for her reaction, Harris replied:

I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who one, are not aspiring to be humble. Two, a whole lot of women out here, who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life, and children in their life and I think it’s very important for women to lift each other up.

One of the things that I have really enjoyed about where the discussion has gone, one of the places it’s gone is about, I feel very strongly, we each have our family by blood and then we have our family by love. And I have both. And I consider it to be a real blessing. And I have two beautiful children: Cole and Ella, who call me “Momala.”

We have a very modern family, my husband’s ex-wife is a friend of mine, you know, and also, I’ll tell you, look, I’m a child of divorced parents, and when I started dating Doug, my husband, I was very thoughtful and sensitive to making sure that until I knew that our relationship was something that was going to be real, I didn’t want to form a relationship with the kids and then walk away from that relationship.

My own experience tells me that children form attachments and I wanted to be thoughtful about it. So I waited to meet the kids, and they are my children, and I love those kids to death. Family comes in many forms and I think that increasingly, all of us understand that this is not the 1950’s anymore. Families come in all shapes or forms and they are family nonetheless.

Harris was also asked by Cooper to respond to an old comment from Vance when he likened women who have no children – and, as he implied, no skin in the game regarding the country’s future – to “childless cat ladies.”

The vice president responded, “I just think it’s mean and mean-spirited. And I think that most Americans want leaders who understand that the measure of their strength is not based on who you beat down, the real measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up.”

Listen above via the Call Her Daddy podcast.