Republican vice presidential hopeful, Sen. J.D. Vance, said Friday that his ‘childless cat lady’ comment was ‘sarcastic’ but doubled down on Democrats having ‘anti-family’ and ‘anti-child’ stances.
‘Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats, I’ve got nothing against dogs, I’ve got one dog at home and I love him,’ the Ohio Republican said. ‘But look, people are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said.’
Vance taped an episode of The Megyn Kelly Show amid the fallout over the resurfaced quip that angered a number of women including actress Jennifer Aniston and legions of Taylor Swift fans.
The VP nominee claimed that both liberal and conservative women responded to the cat comments by saying they were ‘glad’ Vance pointed out there’s ‘something profoundly anti-family in our public policy.’
Republican vice presidential hopeful, Sen. J.D. Vance, said Friday that his ‘childless cat lady’ comment was ‘sarcastic’ but doubled down on Democrats having ‘anti-family’ and ‘anti-child’ stances
He tried to pin that on Democrats’ policies.
‘We have to ask ourselves, Why do we have masking of toddlers years after the pandemic ended?’ he mused.
Vance also claimed that the Harris campaign came out against the extension of the child tax credit.
‘Why do we have the Harris campaign coming out this very morning and saying that we should not have the child tax credit which lowers tax rates for parents of young children?’ the VP hopeful said.
That claim appears to be false.
The Biden administration’s current position is that the White House is ‘committed to restoring the American Rescue Plan’s critical expansion of the Child Tax Credit to lift up all American families and children.’
And Axios reported Wednesday that Harris, as president, would work to expand the Child Tax Credit as she championed it in the Senate and led the effort to get it expanded after the enhanced version that was part of the American Rescue Plan expired.
She failed at that effort as Republican senators and some moderate Democrats tanked it.