Speaking on a popular podcast aimed at young women, Vice President Kamala Harris took issue with former president Donald Trump calling himself a \u201cprotector\u201d of women and also responded to attacks on her stepfamily by Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders.<\/p>\n
Harris made the remarks on the \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d podcast, in an expansive interview with host Alex Cooper. The podcast has millions of listeners, many of them young women \u2014 a group Harris hopes will mobilize to turn out on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n
The interview touched on both Harris\u2019s policies and her identity, and the vice president frequently repeated her well-worn campaign lines. But she also addressed the swipe Sanders made during a Trump event in mid-September when she remarked: \u201cMy kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn\u2019t have anything keeping her humble.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the podcast, released Sunday afternoon, Harris addressed Sanders\u2019s remarks and other affronts by Republicans on her identity, which she said reflected a 1950s caricature of a family.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel sorry for (Sanders) and I\u2019m going to tell you why. Because I don\u2019t 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,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n
In remarks before the interview, Cooper told listeners that she \u201cwent back and forth\u201d with the decision on whether to bring up politics or interview politicians, because she prefers to focus on \u201cwomen and the day-to-day issues that we face.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cooper added that her team reached out to Trump to be interviewed on her show. \u201cIf he also wants to have a meaningful, in-depth conversation of women\u2019s rights in this country, then he is welcome on \u2018Call Her Daddy\u2019 anytime,\u201d she said before the 40-minute interview.<\/p>\n
Harris also took aim at comments made by Trump\u2019s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) about \u201cchildless cat ladies\u201d who he said don\u2019t have a serious investment in America\u2019s future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think it\u2019s mean and mean-spirited,\u201d Harris said. \u201cI think that most Americans want leaders who understand that the measure of their strength is not based on who you beat down; the real measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris held her relationships as an example of a \u201cmodern family.\u201d She is a child of divorced parents and the matriarch of a blended family. Her marriage to Doug Emhoff is both interracial and interreligious (Harris is Baptist and Emhoff is Jewish).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe each 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,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I have two beautiful children: Cole and Ella, who call me \u2018Momala.\u2019 We have a very modern family, my husband\u2019s ex-wife is a friend of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
The conversation repeatedly turned to Trump, and to the presidential candidates\u2019 competing views on abortion access in America. Harris called his false assertion that, in some states, babies are executed after birth a \u201cboldfaced lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
And she said it is false that Trump is a self-described protector of women, delving into a familiar attack line on his successful efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case guaranteeing a constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
At a campaign event in Pennsylvania in September, Trump said that he would save women from loneliness and fear, and that they\u2019ll no longer have to even think about abortion.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou will no longer be abandoned, lonely or scared. You will no longer be in danger. \u2026 You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou will be protected, and I will be your protector.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the podcast, Harris countered that Trump had made life more difficult for women, especially those making an often-searing decision to terminate a pregnancy. She spoke of the increasing hardships faced by women who need abortion care, including one woman who died as a result of new abortion restrictions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the same guy that is now saying that? This is the same guy that said women should be punished for having abortions? This is the same guy who uses the same kind of language he does to describe women?\u201d Harris asked rhetorically.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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