Usha Vance is standing by her man.
Usha Vance, the wife of Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said her husband “would never ever, ever want to say something to hurt someone who was trying to have a family.”
Her words were aired Monday morning In a prerecorded interview with Ainsley Earhardt that aired on “Fox and Friends.”
Usha Vance said she blamed “people” for focusing on the statement rather than Vance’s intent.
“I took a moment to look and actually see what he had said and tried to understand what the context was and all that, which is something that I really wish people would do a little bit more often,” she said.
Vance said she wanted people to spend less time focusing on this “three-word phrase,” because what he was “really saying is that it can be really hard to be a parent in this country, and sometimes our policies are designed in a way that make it even harder.”
She said being unable to have children is “challenging” and “never, ever anything that anyone would want to mock or make fun of.”
Her husband has been under fire since comments he made in 2021 resurfaced, per The Hill.
He said in an interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson the country was being run 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.”
“It’s just a basic fact — you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” Vance said. “And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
In a clip from 2021, JD Vance spoke of how some people have a difficult time having kids; he said his comments were not about them.
“A lot of people are unable to have kids for very complicated and important reasons. … There are people, of course, for biological reasons, medical reasons, that can’t have children. The target of these remarks is not them,” Vance said in 2021.
