( The Hill ) — Usha Vance, the wife of vice presidential hopeful Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), addressed the wave of criticism over his resurfaced comments saying the country was being run by “childless cat ladies.”
In a prerecorded interview with Ainsley Earhardt that aired on “Fox and Friends” Monday morning, Vance said her husband “would never ever, ever want to say something to hurt someone who was trying to have a family.”
Usha Vance, in her first solo interview since Vance joined the Republican ticket, blamed “people” for focusing on the quip rather than the substantive point Vance was trying to make.
Where did the ‘childless cat lady’ phrase come from?
“I took a moment to look and actually see what he had said and tried to understand what the context was and all that, which is something that I really wish people would do a little bit more often,” she said.
Vance added she hoped people would spend less time focusing on this “three-word phrase,” because what he was “really saying is that it can be really hard to be a parent in this country, and sometimes our policies are designed in a way that make it even harder.”