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J.D. Vance's wife Usha defends his weird 'childless cat lady' comments... and reveals what he is REALLY like
Sen. J.D. Vance is still feeling the fallout from the reemergence of his years-old 'childless cat lady' comments – but his wife Usha is now coming to the rescue.
The 38-year-old mother of three spoke with Fox News to discuss how life has changed since J.D. became the Republican vice presidential nominee.
Usha also opened up about her thoughts on her husband's now-viral and highly-criticized comments and said the Ohio senator never meant to 'hurt' women who are struggling to start a family.
She said that some of the classifications she sees of her husband are 'not accurate' and the criticism is 'not the J.D. I know.'
'We've been doing this now for a little while and I've grown accustomed to it and grown a thick skin,' the attorney said of how she is affected by the negative press about her and her family.
Usha Vance defended husband J.D. Vance's 'childless cat lady' comments and responded to how negative press impacts her and her family
She said in the sit-down interview with Ainsley Earhardt that aired in part on Fox & Friends Monday morning: 'He made a quip in service of making a point that he wanted to make that was substantive.'
The entire attack line against Vance stems from a 2021 interview with then-Fox host Tucker Carlson.
'We are 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,' Sen. Vance said at the time.
Left-leaning critics immediately jumped on the posting of the three-year-old comments and said it was an attack against women who cannot or chose not to have children.
Even some conservatives and Republicans were upset by how the remarks could be harmful for women who struggle with fertility and couples who are unable to have children of their own.
'J.D. absolutely, at the time and today would never, ever, ever want to say something to hurt someone who was trying to have a family who really, you know, was struggling with that,' Usha Vance said when asked what her message was to women offended by the comments.
She continued: 'And I also understand there are a lot of other reasons why people may choose not to have families, and many of those reasons are very good.'
Usha joined J.D. at the Republican National Convention last month where the Ohio Senator became the vice presidential nominee running with Donald Trump
'Let's try to look at the real conversation that he's trying to have and engage with it and understand,' Usha went on.'For those of us who do have families, for the many of us who want to have families and for whom it's really hard. What can we do to make it better?'
'What can we do to make it easier to live in 2024, and live a very full life that isn't just professional, that also has this kind of rich personal life and community behind it.'
J.D. and Usha, who is the daughter of Indian immigrants, have three children together – Ewan, 6, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel, 2.
They met at Yale where they were both attending law school.