Not 'childless cat lady,' Kamala Harris' 'cutie pie' stepchildren respond to JD Vance's criticism
¡°How can you be ¡®childless¡¯ when you have cutie pie kids like Cole and me,¡± Ella wrote in her Instagram story.
Ella Emhoff and her brother Cole Emhoff, the stepchildren of U.S. Vice President and Democratic Party's presumptive Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris, have hit out at criticisms that their mother is a 'childless cat lady.'
Not childless cat lady
¡°How can you be ¡®childless¡¯ when you have cutie pie kids like Cole and me,¡± Ella wrote in her Instagram story.
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Ella, a model and fashion designer, was responding to Republican candidate Donald Trump¡¯s running mate JD Vance's criticism of the U.S. Vice President.
What JD Vance said
In a 2021 interview, Vance had said that the country is being run by ¡°a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable with their own lives and the choices that they¡¯ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.¡±
Emhoff's first wife also supports Kamala Harris
Even their biological mother, Kerstin Emhoff, the first wife of Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, said it was wrong to say that the U.S. Vice President was childless.
¡°For over 10 years since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and me. I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it,¡± Kerstin Emhoff, who is a film producer, told CNN.
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According to reports, Cole and Ella affectionately refer to Harris as their ¡°Momala.¡±
What Kamala Harris said about her stepkids
Harris has also been open about her close bond with her stepchildren and has described them as her ¡°endless source of love and pure joy.¡±
She has also opened up about her solid relationship with her husband¡¯s first wife.
¡°To know Cole and Ella is to know that their mother Kerstin is an incredible mother,¡± she stated in a 2019 article.
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¡°Kerstin and I hit it off ourselves and are dear friends. She and I became a duo of cheerleaders in the bleachers at Ella¡¯s swim meets and basketball games, often to Ella¡¯s embarrassment. We sometimes joke that our modern family is almost a little too functional,¡± she said.
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