Harris Strikes Back at Huckabee Sanders, Asserting: ‘This is not the 1950s anymore’
The vice president made her comments during an interview featured on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
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Kamala Harris is responding to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who implied that Harris lacks humility due to not having biological children.
In a Sunday interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, the vice president criticized Huckabee Sanders' views on family, deeming them outdated. She expressed pride in her own “modern family,” which consists of her husband, Doug Emhoff, and his two children, Cole and Ella, from a previous marriage.
“This is not the 1950s anymore,” Harris stated. “Families come in all kinds of forms.”
Harris' comments followed a question from the podcast host, Alex Cooper, regarding Huckabee Sanders' remarks made during a town hall in Flint, Michigan, last month. The governor indicated that her three children keep her “humble,” while asserting that “Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”
“I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble,” Harris remarked. “Two, a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life, and children in their life.”
Harris further emphasized the importance of women supporting one another, seemingly taking a jab at Huckabee Sanders: “I think it’s really important for women to lift each other up.”
Bryan Lanza, a senior campaign adviser for Donald Trump, also condemned Huckabee Sanders’ comments at the time they were made, labeling them “offensive” and describing stepmothers as having a “tough job.” A representative for Sanders later clarified that the comments regarding Harris' humility were in reference to the vice president’s policy positions.
These exchanges occur amidst a larger election-year conversation regarding family structures and the societal roles of individuals without children. They highlight the tension between Donald Trump and women voters, particularly as Democrats criticize the former president for his involvement in appointing three conservative Supreme Court justices instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade.
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s running mate, has faced backlash for previous comments about Harris and other women in leadership roles, referring to them in a 2021 Fox News interview as “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.”
Harris characterized those remarks as “mean and mean-spirited” during her podcast interview.
Trump has attempted to defend Vance while also acknowledging those without children. At the National Association of Black Journalists in July, he stated that some “people without the family are far better — they’re superior in many cases.” He has also sought to soften his stance on abortion, asserting that the issue is now up to the states and vowing to be “great for women and their reproductive rights.”
Meanwhile, Democrats have started to embrace the “childless cat lady” label. When Taylor Swift endorsed Harris last month, she humorously signed her post, “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady,” and included a photo with her cat.
Navid Kalantari for TROIB News
In a Sunday interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, the vice president criticized Huckabee Sanders' views on family, deeming them outdated. She expressed pride in her own “modern family,” which consists of her husband, Doug Emhoff, and his two children, Cole and Ella, from a previous marriage.
“This is not the 1950s anymore,” Harris stated. “Families come in all kinds of forms.”
Harris' comments followed a question from the podcast host, Alex Cooper, regarding Huckabee Sanders' remarks made during a town hall in Flint, Michigan, last month. The governor indicated that her three children keep her “humble,” while asserting that “Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”
“I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble,” Harris remarked. “Two, a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life, and children in their life.”
Harris further emphasized the importance of women supporting one another, seemingly taking a jab at Huckabee Sanders: “I think it’s really important for women to lift each other up.”
Bryan Lanza, a senior campaign adviser for Donald Trump, also condemned Huckabee Sanders’ comments at the time they were made, labeling them “offensive” and describing stepmothers as having a “tough job.” A representative for Sanders later clarified that the comments regarding Harris' humility were in reference to the vice president’s policy positions.
These exchanges occur amidst a larger election-year conversation regarding family structures and the societal roles of individuals without children. They highlight the tension between Donald Trump and women voters, particularly as Democrats criticize the former president for his involvement in appointing three conservative Supreme Court justices instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade.
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s running mate, has faced backlash for previous comments about Harris and other women in leadership roles, referring to them in a 2021 Fox News interview as “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.”
Harris characterized those remarks as “mean and mean-spirited” during her podcast interview.
Trump has attempted to defend Vance while also acknowledging those without children. At the National Association of Black Journalists in July, he stated that some “people without the family are far better — they’re superior in many cases.” He has also sought to soften his stance on abortion, asserting that the issue is now up to the states and vowing to be “great for women and their reproductive rights.”
Meanwhile, Democrats have started to embrace the “childless cat lady” label. When Taylor Swift endorsed Harris last month, she humorously signed her post, “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady,” and included a photo with her cat.
Navid Kalantari for TROIB News
