JD Vance’s old comment on ‘childless cat ladies’ like Kamala Harris has gone viral again as the pair come under the microscope during the 2024 presidential race.
He told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson the US was 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’ in a 2021 clip.
‘Look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC – the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,’ Donald Trump’s newly-announced running mate continued.
‘How does it make any sense we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?’
It comes as another Fox guest shocked the network’s audience more recently when he referred to vice president Harris as the ‘original Hawk Tuah’ girl.
Podcaster Alec Lace made the comments on a July 21 appearance where he discussed president Joe Biden’s less-than-stellar debate performance against Donald Trump and pondered on the Democratic Party’s future.
‘Kamala Harris, she is the original Hawk Tuah girl – that’s the way she got where she is, and the party is going downhill if it’s in her hands,’ Lace said.
The provocative right-winger was comparing the Democrat to Hailey Welch, who shot to viral fame after she described spitting as part of a sexual act during an on-street interview.
Lace’s inflammatory comment prompted Fox host Dagen McDowell to reply with, ‘That was harsh’.
Lace then took to X to address his words about the VP, writing: ‘Did I go too far on FOX News calling Kamala Harris the OG Hawk Tuah girl or am I right over the target?’
He made the comments before Biden announced he will not be running for re-election, making Harris his most obvious successor.
As Harris embarks on her own presidential campaign, Republican presidential candidate Trump has already attacked her over her romance with former San Francisco mayor and notorious playboy, Willie Brown, 90, who is 31 years Harris’s senior and dated her in the 1990s.
In his July 4th message, Trump wrote: ‘Respects to our potentially new Democrat Challenger, Laffin’ Kamala Harris.
‘She did poorly in the Democrat Nominating process, starting out at Number Two, and ending up defeated and dropping out, even before getting to Iowa, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a ‘highly talented’ politician.
‘Just ask her Mentor, the Great Willie Brown of San Francisco.’
Throughout her career, the vice president has been repeatedly forced to deny that her relationship with Brown was the defining step in her political career.
The fling fizzled decades ago, but in the years since, Harris has struggled to shirk her association with Brown, whom she later described as ‘an albatross hanging around my neck.’
While their relationship has often been described as an affair, Brown was separated from his wife Blanche Vitero for more than a decade when he and Harris, now 59, dated in the mid-1990s.
Meanwhile, in the space of just eight years, Ohio Senator JD Vance has gone from one of Donald Trump’s most outspoken critics, going as far as to call him ‘America’s Hitler,’ in the world of conservative politics to darling of the MAGA movement.
A native of Ohio, Vance, 39, grew up in Jackson, Kentucky, where he was raised by his grandmother as his mother battled drug addition. He attended his high school back in the Buckeye State.
After graduation, Vance joined the Marines and served in Iraq in a public affairs role. When he returned, Vance attended Ohio State University and Yale Law School before going work for right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel.
In 2016, Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy was published which thrust him into the public eye. In 2020, it was turned into an Oscar-nominated movie starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams.