The attack did not go unanswered. This Sunday, the Democratic candidate for the American presidential election, Kamala Harris, was the guest of the very popular podcast “Call Her Daddy”. While a good part of the program was devoted to reproductive rights, one of the hot topics of the American campaign, the Vice-President of the United States took advantage of her appearance on the air to respond to a very personal, addressed by the governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
“My children help me stay humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris has nothing to keep her humble,” she said, referring to the fact that the former California prosecutor did not have biological children.
Q: I saw the governor of Arkansas said ‘my kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.’ How did that make you feel?
Vice President Harris: I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who are not… pic.twitter.com/MsOmhEnDGH
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 6, 2024
“I think she doesn’t understand that there are, first of all, a whole bunch of women who don’t aspire to stay humble. But also that there are a whole bunch of women who have a lot of love in their lives, family, children… (…) There is the blood family and there is the heart family. And I have both,” Kamala Harris reacted to host Alex Cooper’s microphone.
“We are a very modern family”
Although she has no biological children, the Democratic candidate is the stepmother of the two children of her husband of 10 years. “I have two wonderful children, who call me Mamala” (a contraction of Mom, which means mom, and Kamala, her first name), she explained in the podcast. “We are a very modern family, I am friends with my husband’s ex-wife… They are my children and I love them to death,” she added, explaining that she drew on her own experience of daughter of divorced parents to form a relationship with them.
After this response, Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to retract her comments to the American newspaper The Hillassuring that she would “never criticize a woman because she does not have children” but that she just wanted to point out what she describes as a “lack of humility” in the vice-president.
However, this is not the first time that Kamala Harris has suffered barbs from Republicans on the subject, as recalled The Guardian. In 2001, the Ohio senator now in the running to become vice president if Donald Trump was elected, JD Vance, said that women who did not have children were “a bunch of old maids to cats who are unhappy in life and in their choices that they want to make the rest of the country unhappy with them.” Without returning to this statement, the main person concerned just said that he regretted that “people took the wrong way” the comments made in this video which recently resurfaced.
With her appearance on the show “Call Her Daddy”, Kamala Harris launched a major media campaign on Sunday, one month before the presidential election. During the week, she will be a guest on ABC’s “The View”, “The Howard Stern Show” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, considered to be generally favorable to her campaign.
