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Democrats aren’t letting up on their line of attack on Sen. J.D. Vance over his “childless cat ladies” comments — but some are now saying they’ve gone too far. An MSNBC reporter claims Vance is “racist” and just wants “more white children” in the U.S. after the Republican vice presidential candidate said his comments were a criticism 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 only wants white children in America, so much so that she married a woman of color and had mixed-race children,” wrote one X user.
MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire noted that more Americans are choosing to remain childless by choice and that the resurgence of the 2021 comments has “politically damaged” Vance. Contributor Molly Jong-Fast, who has now 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?” Jong-Fast said. “That there should be more white children, right? That’s the idea – that this is about Great Replacement Theory racism, right?” “That’s what this is,” she insisted. “So don’t misunderstand that he wants more children. 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 guess that’s why he married an Indian woman and has mixed-race kids?” And Heritage Action Communications Director Cody Sargent sarcastically joked that Jong-Fast’s claim “is probably news to Senator Vance’s wife, Usha, a first-generation Indian-American, and their mixed-race kids.”
The entire line of attack against Vance stems from a 2021 interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “We’re essentially run in this country by the Democrats, by our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their own lives and the choices they’ve made and want to make the rest of the country unhappy,” he said at the time.
“How is it logical that we have handed our country over to people who have no direct interest in it?” he added. Vance has three mixed-race children, Ewan, 6, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel, 2, with his wife Usha, whom he met when the two attended Yale together.
Trump has come to his running mate’s defense, claiming that he is not bothered by 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.”
