Vice President JD Vance called himself “boneheaded” in his new memoir for once deriding Democrats as “childless cat ladies,” five years after he made the divisive comment.In Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, Vance admitted fault in making the comment.“One of the dumbest things I ever said came when I argued that ‘childless cat ladies’ across the Democrat Party were running our country into the ground,” he wrote in a book excerpt reported by NBC News.
“The comment caused two firestorms: the first when I made it, the second years later during a political campaign,” he continued. “It was a boneheaded comment, intentionally (and successfully) provocative rather than illuminating.”
In 2021, Vance mocked then-Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats 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.” At the time, he was running for a Senate seat in Ohio. The comment resurfaced in 2024 when Donald Trump chose Vance as his running mate.
Harris’s campaign for president latched onto Vance’s words as a sexist attack against women who haven’t given birth. While running for the White House two years ago, Vance defended his criticism of Democrats.
