A clip from a 2021 conversation with Tucker Carlson showing J.D. Vance decrying that American politics are run by “childless cat ladies” comments has surfaced. He defended them to Megyn Kelly Friday.
The comments by Vance were pushed back on by numerous media members, celebrities, and politicians after the clip surfaced. During The Megyn Kelly Show Friday, the SiriusXM host asked Vance what he really meant.
“I know the media wants to attack me and back down on this, Megyn, but the simple point that I made — having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, really changes your perspective in a profound way,” Vance said. “This is not a criticism of people who do not have children. I explicitly said this in my remarks, despite the fact that the media has lied about this.”
He joked that “Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats … People are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance. And the substance of what I said, Megyn — I’m sorry, it is true.”
After the interview was aired on Kelly’s SiriusXM show and on YouTube, the comments went viral, with Vance’s name serving as one of the top trending items on the X social media platform.
Critics quickly took the comments from the Ohio Senator and Vice Presidential running mate of Republican nominee Donald Trump to mean that J.D. Vance was apologizing to cats rather than to the women he offended by his remarks.
Kelly argued that the declining birth rate mean that Vance has a point in his comments.
