Vice President Kamala Harris responded to Arkansas GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ comment that Harris “has nothing to keep her humble” because she doesn’t have children.
“I don’t think she understands that there are a lot of women out there who don’t aspire to be modest,” Democratic presidential candidate Harris told Alex Cooper, host of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
“There are a lot of women out there who have a lot of love in their lives, families in their lives and kids in their lives, and I think it’s really important for women to lift each other up,” Two added in a taped interview released Sunday.
“Our family is by blood and then by love. And I have both,” Harris, who is stepmother to her husband Doug Emhoff’s two children, told Cooper, adding, “And I consider that a real blessing.”
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Harris discussed her relationship with her stepchildren, Cole and Ella Emhoff, her husband’s biological children from his first marriage.
“They are my children. I love those kids to death, and family comes in many forms,” Harris said.
Huckabee Sanders, who worked in former President Donald Trump’s administration last month, he told those present at the town hall: “My kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris has nothing to keep her humble.”
“I would never criticize a woman for not having children,” Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
“The point I’ve made, and Kamala Harris has confirmed by her own admission, is that she doesn’t believe our leaders need to be humble, which explains her arrogant claim that she can fix our nation’s problems after spending the last four years making them worse. ” he continued.
Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, criticized women on similar grounds, saying that in 2021, Democrats without biological children “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their lives and the choices they have made and therefore want to make the rest of the country unhappy too.
When asked what message Vance’s comments send to women who can’t conceive or have children naturally, Harris calls them “despicable and despicable.”
“I think most Americans want leaders who understand that the measure of their strength is not what they beat. The true measure of a leader’s strength is what they lift,” he added.
Cooper also asked Harris about Trump’s comments at a rally in Indiana, Pennsylvania last month, and he said that under the incoming Trump administration, “you will no longer be abandoned, alone, and afraid. You will no longer be in danger. You will no longer have to worry about all the problems today, and I’m your protector.” I will be.”
Trump added: “Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free.”
Harris condemned Trump, calling him Roe v. He accused the nomination of three Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn the fight against Wade.
“They did what he wanted,” Harris said, adding that “Trump now has 20 states with abortion bans, including bans that don’t exclude rape or consanguineous sex… to decide what happens to their bodies by violating their bodies.” has no right.
“Is this the man who said it now?” Harris asked, referring to Trump’s comments about protecting women. “Is this the same guy who said women should be punished for having abortions? Is this the same guy who used the same language to describe women? Yeah, you’re gone.”
A spokesman for the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.