Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) on Tuesday took a swipe at Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), calling his past comments about “childless cat ladies” “very weird” as the vice-presidential candidate faces backlash over his comments on people who do not have kids.
When asked on Tuesday about Vance’s controversial comments, “That truly is just a weird position to take. I’ve never heard that before. It was very weird. I couldn’t believe it.”
Manchin is the latest lawmaker to question Vance’s 2021 remarks, during which he criticized those who don’t have children.
In those remarks, Vance told then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson the country 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.”
Vance defended the “childless cat ladies” remarks last week, calling it a “sarcastic comment” and pivoting to attack Democrats as “antifamily.”
“I know the media wants to attack me and wants me to back down on this, Megyn, but the simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way,” Vance said on SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” last week.