Kamala Harris hit back at Republican Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ comments that the vice president and Democratic White House candidate “has nothing to keep her humble” because she has no children of her own.
“I don’t think she understands that there are a lot of women here who don’t have the ambition to be humble,” Harris told Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper in a recorded interview released Sunday.
Sanders, deputy White House press secretary during Donald Trump’s presidency, told a rally in September that her “children keep me humble.”
“Unfortunately, Kamala Harris has nothing to keep her humble,” Sanders said.
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In a recorded interview with Cooper, Harris said that there are “a lot of women here who have a lot of love in their lives, family in their lives and children in their lives, and I think it’s very important for women to recognize each and every one of them.” lift. others on”.
Harris, who is a stepmother to her husband Doug Emhoff’s two children, Cole and Ella Emhoff, added: “We have our family by blood and then we have our family by love. And I have both.
“And I consider it a real blessing.”
Discussing her relationship with her stepchildren, her husband’s biological children from his first marriage, Harris said, “They’re my children.” And I love those kids dearly, and family comes in many forms.”
But Sanders hit back at Harris in an emailed statement to the Hill on Sunday, saying she would “never criticize a woman for not having children.”
“The point I made, and that Kamala Harris herself confirmed, is that she does not believe our leaders need to be humble, which explains her arrogant claim that she alone can solve our country’s problems after spending the past four years making them worse made. she continued.
The clash stems from comments made by Trump’s running mate in the November 2021 presidential election, JD Vance. The US senator from Ohio said women without biological children are “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable about their own lives and the choices they’ve made and therefore want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”
Harris called Vance’s comments “mean and mean-spirited.”
Vance has said he regretted that “a lot of people took it the wrong way,” but he didn’t really regret the comments themselves.
Sunday’s podcast comes as Harris begins a media blitz amid criticism in the political media that she has not subjected herself to one-on-one interviews since securing the Democratic nomination, with the exception of Oprah Winfrey.
Cooper, the podcast host, also asked Harris last month about Trump’s comments that “women will be happy, healthy, confident and free” if he gets a second presidency.
Harris alluded to how Trump appointed three U.S. Supreme Court justices who in 2022 were part of the conservative bloc that overturned the federal right to abortion, once established in the landmark Roe v Wade case.
“Is this the same man saying that now?” Harris asked. “So yeah, there you go.”
