J.D. Vance Takes Another Stab at Cleaning Up His ‘Cat Ladies’ Rant

Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), continued to play clean-up Sunday evening after a series of comments resurfaced in which he criticized those without children as insufficiently invested in the future of America and called Democratic politicians a “bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives.”

Vance appeared on Fox News’ Sunday Night in America With Trey Gowdy to address the controversy, with Gowdy himself saying he’s been contacted by many people who were “disappointed” in the senator’s comments.

In response, Vance claimed his comments were taken out of context and that he simply meant to criticize Democrats for their rhetoric toward parents. He specifically pointed to another resurfaced interview in which Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said one of the things Americans are forced to consider when deciding to have children is the way climate change may impact their lives.

“The left has increasingly become explicitly anti-child and anti-family, and they encouraged young families not to have children at all over concerns of climate change, and they suggested people having children are somehow being selfish, when being a parent is the most selfless thing that you can do,” he said. “This is not a criticism and never was a criticism of everybody without children—that is a lie of the left. It’s a criticism of the increasingly anti-parent and anti-child attitude of the left.”