By Nandita Bose
(Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday rejected Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ suggestion that the Democratic presidential candidate isn’t humble as a result of she doesn’t have organic kids.
Harris mentioned the Arkansas governor’s views on household had been outdated and mentioned her personal “modern family,” which incorporates her husband, Doug Emhoff, and his two kids from his first marriage, Cole and Ella.
Throughout a city corridor Sanders moderated for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Michigan in September, she mentioned her youngsters preserve her “humble,” whereas Harris “doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”
Harris responded to Sanders’ feedback on the favored “Call Her Daddy” podcast on Sunday, saying “I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble. Two, a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life, and children in their life.”
“And I think it’s really important for women to lift each other up,” Harris added.
Harris mentioned household is available in many kinds.
“We have our family by blood, and then we have our family by love, and I have both, and I consider it to be a real blessing,” she mentioned. “And I have two beautiful children, Cole and Ella, who call me Momala. We have a very modern family. My husband’s ex-wife is a friend of mine.”
The vp additionally responded to Trump’s working mate, JD (NASDAQ:) Vance, having beforehand complained he did not need the nation run by “childless cat ladies.”
“I just think it’s mean and mean-spirited,” Harris mentioned.
Sanders’ workplace and the Trump marketing campaign didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Harris joined the podcast, hosted by Alex Cooper, for a dialog centered on reproductive rights, sexual abuse and scholar loans.
The looks was a part of a broader media outreach effort by Harris as she seeks to spice up her assist within the remaining month earlier than the Nov. 5 election towards Trump.
The vp’s marketing campaign, which has come underneath criticism over the quantity of media interviews Harris has accomplished up to now, mentioned she’s going to seem on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” ABC’s “The View,” CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “The Howard Stern Show” this week.
