Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance is doubling down on comments he made in 2021 about “childless cat ladies” running the nation who “want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”

Vance made the remarks on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris, who now is the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Harris has no children of her own but is stepmother to her husband Doug Emhoff’s two children.

The Pew Research Center issued a report last week titled “The Experiences of U.S. Adults Who Don’t Have Children, “ based on a 2023 survey. Their research found that 57 percent of adults under 50 who say they’re unlikely to ever have kids say a major reason is they just don’t want to. And, 31 percent of those ages 50 and older without kids cite this as a reason they never had them. According to the report, the U.S. fertility rate reached a historic low in 2023.

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