Vance calls his ‘childless cat ladies’ comment ‘one of the dumbest things I ever said’

Vice President JD Vance now concedes that it was “boneheaded” of him in 2021 to call Kamala Harris and other Democrats “childless cat ladies.”The admission comes in Vance’s forthcoming memoir, “Communion,” which is set to be released Tuesday.“One of the dumbest things I ever said came when I argued that ‘childless cat ladies’ across the Democrat Party were running our country into the ground,” Vance writes in the book, a copy of which was obtained and read by NBC News.

Vice President JD Vance now concedes that it was “boneheaded” of him in 2021 to call Kamala Harris and other Democrats “childless cat ladies.”

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The admission comes in Vance’s forthcoming memoir, “Communion,” which is set to be released Tuesday.

“One of the dumbest things I ever said came when I argued that ‘childless cat ladies’ across the Democrat Party were running our country into the ground,” Vance writes in the book, a copy of which was obtained and read by NBC News.