Democrats aren’t letting up on their lines of attack against Sen. JD Vance over his comments about “childless cat ladies” — but some now think it’s gone too far.
An MSNBC contributor claims Vance is “racist” and just wants “more white children” in the US, after the Republican vice presidential candidate said his comments were critical of anti-child liberals.
A major problem is that the Ohio senator has three mixed-race children with his wife Usha, the daughter of Indian immigrants.
“JD Vance wants only white children in America so badly that she married a colored woman and had mixed children,” wrote one X user.
MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire noted that statistics show more Americans are choosing not to have children and that repeating the 2021 comments has caused Vance “political damage.”
MSNBC contributor Molly Jong-Fast says Sen. JD Vance’s comments about a ‘childless cat lady’ are racist because she claims he just wants more ‘white children’ in the US
Contributor Molly Jong-Fast, who has since blocked her X account, said on Morning Joe on Tuesday that Vance’s perspective is authoritarian and racist.
“What’s interesting is that this natalism comes from an authoritarian playbook, right?” John-Fast said. “That there should be more white children, right? That’s the idea – that this is about the Great Replacement Theory of racism, right?”
“This is what this is,” she insisted. “So don’t take it the wrong way, because he wants more kids. He wants some kind of racist thing.”
Tucker Carlson biographer Chadwick Moore wrote on X: “Wacko on MSNBC says JD Vance wants more ‘white kids.’ I assume that’s why he married an Indian woman and had mixed kids?”
And Cody Sargent, communications director at Heritage Action, sarcastically noted that Jong-Fast’s claim “is likely news to Senator Vance’s wife, Usha, a first-generation Indian-American, and their biracial children.”
The full attack on Vance stems from a 2021 interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“We’re basically run in this country by the Democrats, by our corporate oligarchs, and by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their own lives and the choices they’ve made, and who want to make the rest of the country unhappy too,” he said at the time.
“How is it possible that we hand over our country to people who actually have no direct interest in it?” he added.
Vance is married to Usha, the daughter of Indian immigrants. They have three biracial children together: Ewan, 6, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel, 2
Vance has three mixed-race children: Ewan, 6, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel, 2. He has a wife, Usha, whom he met when they attended Yale together.
Trump defends his running mate, claiming he is not concerned about his comments about “childless cat ladies” because it proves he has “family values.”
“He loves family. It’s very important to him,” Trump told Fox host Laura Ingraham during an interview that aired Monday night.
“He grew up in a very interesting family situation. And he believes that family is a good thing,” Trump added of Vance. “And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that statement.”