Vice President Harris defended her household following assaults in a brand new podcast interview that got here out Sunday.
Harris was requested about feedback from Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-Ark.) final month in which she mentioned the vice chairman “doesn’t have anything keeping her humble” attributable to her lack of organic youngsters by host Alex Cooper on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
In her response, Harris mentioned “family comes in many forms, and I think that, increasingly, you know, all of us understand that, you know, this is not the 1950s anymore.”
“Families come in all kinds of shapes and forms, and they’re family nonetheless,” Harris added.
Harris’ husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, went after Sanders for the feedback final month at a marketing campaign occasion in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“Somehow because Cole and Ella [Emhoff] aren’t Kamala’s quote-unquote biological children, that she doesn’t have anything in her life to keep her humble,” Emhoff mentioned.
“As if keeping women humble, whether you have children or not, is something we should strive for, it is not,” Emhoff continued. “But I’ll tell you what, going back to that debate, Kamala sure kept Trump humble at that debate, didn’t she, because that’s what this is really about.”
In her “Call Her Daddy” interview, Harris additionally responded to feedback from Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, from 2021 in which he mentioned the U.S. was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
“I just think it’s mean and mean-spirited,” Harris mentioned. “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.”
Vance mentioned the 2021 feedback had been “sarcastic” in late July.
“We think it’s ‘mean spirited’ that Kamala Harris created crushing inflation, opened the border to drugs and criminals, and allowed the world to fall into chaos,” Taylor Van Kirk, a spokesperson for Vance mentioned in an emailed assertion to The Hill. “Kamala Harris has a record of failure and her purposely taking JD’s words out of context won’t change that fact.”
In one other emailed assertion to The Hill, Sanders mentioned she “would never criticize a woman for not having children, the point I was making and that Kamala Harris confirmed by her own admission is that she doesn’t believe our leaders should be humble, which explains her arrogant claim that she alone can fix our nation’s problems after spending the last four years making them worse.”
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