WASHINGTON Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), Donald Trumps vice presidential pick, said in 2021 that Vice President Kamala Harris is one of the childless cat ladies who is miserable with her life and has no direct stake in America because she is not a mom.

In a speech at an Intercollegiate Studies Institute conference, Vance specifically named Harris in a tirade against the childless left who have no physical commitment to the future of this country. He lumped the vice president in with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Why is this just a normal fact of life, for the leaders of our country to be people who dont have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring? Vance said.

Days later, the Ohio Republican doubled down on his attacks on childless Democrats in an interview with then-Fox News Tucker Carlson.

Were 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 theyve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too, Vance said.

Its just a basic fact: You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children, he said. And how does it make any sense that weve turned our country over to people that dont have a direct stake in it.