Arkansas governor and former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared to criticize Vice President Kamala Harris for not having biological children during a town hall event with former President Donald Trump in Michigan on Tuesday night. “My kids keep me humble,” Huckabee Sanders said in Flint. “Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble.
” Her comments echo those of Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance , who has faced severe criticism for his previous comments about women who don’t have biological children. Vance told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2021 that the US 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 [Alexandria Ocasio Cortez] — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” he 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?” Harris has two stepchildren and Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, adopted twins in August 2021. Huckabee Sanders made the comments while describing how her daughter was getting ready for her first father-daughter dance. “She wanted to come down the stairs, and her prince charming, my husband, to be there, and everything to be thi.