A chief political analyst for Fox News criticized GOP Sen. JD Vance of Ohio for recent remarks made by the vice presidential candidate regarding women who don’t have children.
Vance made the remarks in 2021 and criticized Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race and endorsed her on July 21. Vance criticized Harris for not having any biological children and said the country is being “effectively run” by Democrats who are “a bunch of childless cat ladies.”
The GOP vice presidential running mate called these Democrats “miserable” and said they were simply unhappy with their choices, and that they want to make everyone else in the country “miserable, too.” Aside from Harris, Vance said this included Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
The remarks resurfaced last week and sparked outrage online amongst Democratic voters, especially women, who rebuked Vance and accused him of being “weird” for making such comments.
One of those critics was Brit Hume, a chief political analyst at Fox, who appeared on “Special Report” on Monday, July 29, and said Vance’s remarks were a mistake. Fox News host Bret Baier asked Hume what he thought about the remarks and said Vance was “clearly under attack” due to the Harris nomination.
Hume said the situation reminded him of the 2008 presidential election when the late Sen. John McCain selected Sarah Palin as a running mate. Hume said although Palin got off to “a great start,” impressing delegates with her convention speech and press conferences, people eventually started digging into her past and finding “strange things” Palin said that resulted in her campaign “tumbling down.”
The Fox political analyst said that Vance clearly “made a mistake” with his “childless cat ladies” remark, which Hume called a “stupid comment.” He added that despite the mistake and Vance doubling down on it, vice presidential candidates do not matter as much, and even if Vance may currently be “a drag on the ticket” for former President Donald Trump, people will ultimately “vote for the top” of that ticket. Hume also said voters may “have questions” about whether Vance was picked by Trump because he was the “best qualified” or if he “sucked up” to him.
