Sen. J.D. Vance sounded off on CNN anchor Dana Bash earlier this week over her focus on an inane and out-of-context remark he made more than three years ago rather than on issues that are the most important facing the country ahead of the November election.
The Trump running mate grew irritated at Bash after she asked several questions regarding his comment about “childless cat ladies,” which he made in 2021 in reference to the Democrat left’s rejection of having families with children.
“We’re effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by 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. And it’s just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” Vance said.
Bash asked: “What do you say to key voters like that, Republican swing voters, who are put off by your views?”
“If you look at what I said in context, the Harris campaign has frankly lied about what I actually said,” Vance replied. “I’m pro-family. I want us to have more families. And obviously, sometimes it doesn’t work out, sometimes for medical reasons, sometimes because you don’t meet the right person. But the point is that our country has become anti-family and its public policy.”
“You called out Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg in particular,” Bash said, following up. She tried to make her point by noting that Harris “has two stepchildren” — none of her own — and that Buttigieg and his husband adopted twins. “Do you recognize them as parents and more broadly, as being part of families?” she asked.
“Of course I do,” and went on to claim he criticized Harris “for being part of a set of ideas that exists in American leadership that is anti-family,” largely through the adoption and backing of policies that make it more difficult to have and raise children.
Following more back and forth, Vance then interjected: “You’ve now asked me three questions about comments that I made three years ago. I wonder what Kamala Harris thinks about the fact that she supported policies that open the American Southern border. I wonder what Kamala Harris thinks about Joe Biden’s mental facility for the office.”
“I’m interviewing you,” Bash replied. “Not Kamala Harris.”
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Vance responded brilliantly, pointing out that Harris has refused to sit down for interviews like he and former President Trump have done.
“You are interviewing me, Dana, because I respect the American people enough to sit down for an interview,” Vance said. “Kamala Harris has been the nominee for three weeks. She hasn’t sat down for a real interview.”
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Bash responded by noting that her network has reached out to Harris’ campaign to try and schedule an interview, which Vance also used as an opening to scold her over her line of ‘gotcha’ questions.
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“The point is, Dana, you’ve got me for 15 minutes or however long you have me,” Vance said. “We should be talking about public policies that matter. How are we going to lower inflation? How are we going to reduce the cost of food and housing? How are we going to close down that southern border? We’ve talked so little about that. We’ve talked a lot more about a sarcastic remark I made three years ago.”
Vance also torched a New York Times reporter during a rally in Michigan on Wednesday who tried to get his response to a slightly positive economic report that hit this week.
“I wanted to ask you about the latest economic news from this morning, with inflation now being under 3%, the lowest rate since mid-2021. What is your reaction to that news?” the Times reporter asked, which led to a round of boos and jeers from the crowd.
“Well, I think the crowd reaction says it all,” Vance began, gesturing to the energized audience’s audible boos to the question. “Look, when they say that inflation is down, they mean from a baseline where groceries are already 30% more expensive than they were when Donald Trump was president. And they’re not saying it’s coming down, they’re just saying it’s not going up as fast as it was three years ago. That is not a reputation or a record to brag on, that’s a record to be ashamed of.”
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