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J.D. Vance gives 'I'm sorry you were offended' apology after latest grilling on childless cat lady controversy
While the news cycle had died down on J.D. Vance's years-old 'childless cat lady' comments, the vice presidential nominee insists he does not regret the joke that sparked a slew of leftist criticism.
Vance says instead that Democrats have tried to attack his character for a 'sarcastic comment' he made in trying to make a much bigger point about policies that make it harder to want to start a family.
'Yes, I made a sarcastic comment years ago that I think that a lot of Democrats willfully misinterpreted,' Vance said in the latest grilling on his comments.
Asked by NBC Meet the Press host Kristen Welker if he regrets the remarks, Vance said: 'I regret, certainly, that a lot of people took it the wrong way and I certainly regret that the DNC and Kamala Harris lied about it.'
The entire controversy stems from a 2021 interview Vance had with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson when he was a candidate for U.S. Senate.
Sen. J.D. Vance doesn't regret his 'sarcastic comment' about 'childless cat ladies' and said it was a joke made in bigger service to the anti-family problem in America
Vance said at the time that the U.S. 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 — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,' Vance continued. '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?'
Vice President Harris does not have any children of her own but is a stepmother to husband Doug Emhoff's two kids Ella and Cole. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg now has twins he adopted with husband Chasten.
The Ohio Republican says that while his comment was a joke the point was larger that conditions in the U.S. make it hard for people to support their families and is therefore discouraging couples from having children.
'I have a lot of regrets, Kristen, but making a joke three years ago is not at the top ten of the list,' he said in the interview with Welker that aired in full on Sunday morning.
Vance saw his wife Usha work to balance having children and being a successful litigator and says he wants to make it easier for women to have choices. Pictured: J.D. and Usha Vance with their three children
'I'm going to say things from time to time that people disagree with,' he acknowledged. 'I'm a real person. I'm going to make jokes, I'm going to say things sarcastically.'
'There are certainly going to be things that I say if I'm elected vice president that people are going to say, 'well, I wish he had said that differently.' I think it's most important to be the person I actually am and say those sarcastic comments were made in the service of a real, substantive point,' he continued.
'This country has become too anti-family,' Vance lamented. 'It's too expensive to afford a house, it's too expensive to afford groceries. Donald Trump and I want to change that.'
The Republican VP nominee urged Americans to move past the comments and 'focus on the policy.'