‘He’s So Vile!’ CNN Morning Crew Beats Up On Trump VP Pick Vance Over ‘Cat Lady’ Remark

CNN’s morning show crew tore into Trump VP pick Sen. JD Vance over a resurfaced interview in which he named Vice President Kamala Harris among a list of “childless cat ladies” ruining the country.

In a 2021 interview that has gone viral, Vance said “We’re effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, 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. And it’s just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”

On Wednesday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, anchor Kasie Hunt led her panel in roasting Vance on a spit over the remarks, with his lone defender immediately surrendering and changing the subject:

KASIE HUNT: To the 2024 race, and this recently resurfaced video of Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. It has stirred an uproar and is raising questions about how sexism will play into the campaign now that Kamala Harris is leading the Democratic ticket. This was Vance speaking to Fox News in 2021.

SEN. JD VANCE: We’re effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, 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. And it’s just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.

KASIE HUNT: Childless cat ladies. (LAUGHTER).

Harris does, in fact have two stepchildren. We should note Buttigieg welcomed twins weeks after that interview. Was was, was what ever after that interview aired.

Let’s just, you know, remind everyone who else is a very powerful, childless cat lady, quote unquote. Because the internet really likes Taylor Swift in this particular moment.

There she is with her cat. You know, hasn’t endorsed a presidential candidate yet. I I’m the only woman at this table. This was clearly a mistake. But what is — Scott Jennings?

SCOTT JENNINGS: Yes, please ask all the white men where we — (LAUGHS)

KASIE HUNT: Would you like to defend your vice presidential nominee?

SCOTT JENNINGS: Well, first of all, he didn’t say it as vice president.

BRAD WOODHOUSE: No, clip that! That’s all right. He’s the Senate candidate for Ohio.

SCOTT JENNINGS: Oh, I mean, I think that, that there’s no this is not part of the campaign’s messaging. Number one.

(LAUGHTER)

BRAD WOODHOUSE: We’re going to make it part of the messaging.

SCOTT JENNINGS: Number two, and number two, if I may pivot, I think the old videos, if you if you want to play the game of resurfacing old videos of people who are now thrust onto tickets, I suspect you’re going to see plenty of Kamala Harris videos that are going to be far more politically damaging than going after JD Vance today. That’s my that’s my view.

REP. PAT RYAN (D-NY): I mean, what it speaks to, though, is the values and the disregard for a huge number of people that he brings at a moment when in my district and across the country, people feel like politicians are not caring about them, are not listening. And I can also say, as the husband of a cat lady with children, she’s pissed and people are rightly. It just hits as true because he’s so vile and so much of his rhetoric. And I think it will be and should be soundly rejected.

KASIE HUNT: Well, look, I will say I’m glad. I’m glad that you sort of brought it back to the serious questions here, because the reality is it’s such a personal thing for people as well. I mean, and to your writing off, there are many reasons why any person may or may not have children in their lives. And this is something for women and men. And in fact, Pete Buttigieg, who we were just talking about earlier, he and his husband, Chasten, adopted twins. But he was asked about this, on CNN on Tuesday, and he had this to say, let’s watch.

SEC. PETE BUTTIGIEG: The really, sad thing is, he said that after Chasten and I had been through a fairly heartbreaking setback in our adoption journey. He couldn’t have known that. But maybe that’s why you shouldn’t be talking about other people’s children.

And it’s not about his kids or my kids or the vice president’s family. It’s about your family. People’s families whose well-being will depend on whether we go into a future led by somebody like Kamala Harris.

KASIE HUNT: And, Jeff, I will just say, also, this really underscores how different this race is. But go ahead.

JEFF MASON: Yes it does. I was just going to say I wrote a story on Sunday about sexism and racism being a part of this race. Because of the challenges that Vice President Harris has faced her entire career and will now face at the top of the ticket.

There’s a lot of room for policy debate, and there will no doubt be a big, robust discussion about that. But racism and sexism in the United States is history of never having elected a woman, only having elected a Black person once to the presidency is absolutely one of the things that she will have to face, and I think you’re seeing that in comments there.

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