Trump 2024 senior campaign advisor Chris LaCivita criticized the left’s recent attacks on vice presidential candidate JD Vance, stating that critics are being “absolutely absurd” for their interpretation of his comments about “childless cat ladies” in the Democratic Party. On an episode of Fox News host Brian Kilmeade’s daily radio program, “The Brian Kilmeade Show,” LaCivita stated that the uproar over Vance’s comments, which were made during an interview three years ago, was blown out of proportion. He clarified to the radio host that the Trump/Vance campaign is not against “childless women,” as the liberal media is claiming.
“The fact of the matter is, it’s been blatantly taken out of context,” the Trump advisor said during the radio segment that aired on Friday. During the 2021 interview, Vance originally stated, “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 wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too.” He specifically named Vice President Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., as part of that group.
This week, the Harris campaign, along with several other well-known liberals, including Hillary Clinton and actress Jennifer Aniston, among others, criticized Vance, accusing him of diminishing the value of women who do not have children or cannot have them under normal circumstances. LaCivita responded to the latest attack on Vance, arguing that his words were being exaggerated and suggesting that they are being misinterpreted maliciously.
The senior Trump adviser also turned the media’s attacks on Vance here against them. “As a matter of fact, there was a discussion today, where the follow-up – the Democrat follow-up attack — is that JD Vance believes that only people with children should get certain tax breaks. Well, that’s called the childcare tax credit,” he continued, noting, “So now we have the Democrat Party and the Kamala Harris campaign on record as opposing something that has been law for years which is, you know, the childcare tax credit.”
“Look, we expect this kind of thing. You know, they drag out their has-been actresses of Jennifer Aniston to come out and make these attacks,” LaCivita continued. “We’re about fighting for the working women of the United States, the forgotten people of the middle class. JD Vance is the perfect representation of that. They know it. It scares the hell out of them… They’re going to peddle in fiction and we’re going to have to deal with it as we go forward.”
Trump continues to get kudos for selecting Vance as his running mate and includes younger Americans they will both need to win in November. During the 2024 Republican National Convention, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy praised Generation Z, calling them the generation that will “eventually save America.” The Wall Street Journal has also referred to them as the “toolbelt generation” for their impact on transforming the landscape of work and education in America. After President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the race on Sunday, both parties will vie for the support of young people in these uncertain times.
Some conservative “Zoomers,” as they are called, believe that Trump has advanced in gaining support from the youngest voting bloc by selecting Vance as his running mate. Vance is the first millennial to be added to a presidential ticket, which is significant as concerns about age are prominent in the political sphere. “If we look at JD Vance specifically as VP, one of their [Gen Z’s] biggest concerns is the age” of then-candidate Biden and Trump, podcast host and Gen Z influencer Christian Hodges told Fox News. “They see JD Vance as an insurance policy for Trump in case there is another assassination attempt, and it’s successful, unfortunately.”